The "dress code" is essential...

[AncientPaths]

Originally Posted by Falla39

Many times through the years, there have been times I felt uncomfortable with something I put on. or I did. I took it off, and didn't do whatever again.
Falla39

I hope you waited till you got home to take it off.

J/k Sis. Falla.

[faithit166]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

so that people will know you're a Christian?

I think I've disproved that theory.


I recently got a new job. I no longer follow the Pentecostal 'dress code' and haven't since I've worked there. I honestly was curious if it would prove to be true that no one would know I was a Christian, or "different", without the "separateness" of the dress code.

I'm not the preachy type. I'm not the type to go around telling everyone I'm a Christian. I just try to be friendly, courteous, considerate and do a good job. If asked what I'm doing this weekend I might say something like - "Oh, we have a carnival at church we're working on", or something like that, but other than that the subject of whether or not I'm a Christian hasn't come up.

A few weeks ago, one of the ladies I work with stopped mid-sentence and apologized to me for saying a curse word. I probably looked at her funny because it surprised me. She said - "I'm so sorry, I try not to cuss around you, but it keeps slipping out!" She said - "I know you're a church-goer, and I don't mean to talk like that around you." I was actually quite stunned because most of the people we work with go to church... and most of them cuss.

About a week later I was in the file room and another woman dropped a box and said something under her breath. She popped up and said - "I didn't cuss!! I'd be so embarrassed if I cussed around you!" Again I was surprised. I really had not known at all that anyone noticed anything different about me.

Apparently a light can shine through even without the dress code. And I don't say that arrogantly, I say it very humbly and gratefully. Grateful that God lets his light shine through me. Grateful that his Spirit is strong enough to shine through even through our fumbling and stumbling.

I'm just posting this because it's something I honestly wondered about, and was a little concerned about. I'd heard it so often that the dress code was necessary so that people would know you were different. I am truly grateful to learn that that wasn't true.

just a question why did you follow the pentecostal dress code in the first place

[houston]

Originally Posted by faithit166

just a question why did you follow the pentecostal dress code in the first place

peer presure

[faithit166]

yes possibly, i was just wondering if she believed it with her whole heart or if it was because thats what everyone one else there did

[AmericanAngel]

Originally Posted by houston

peer presure

agree

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by faithit166

just a question why did you follow the pentecostal dress code in the first place

Raised that way. Not doing it wasn't exactly an option.

I continued well into my adulthood because it was what I had always been taught, and I was afraid to question it - I had also been taught that I could be lead into a spirit of delusion if I questioned these things.

But once I made up my mind that I was going to study things for myself, see what the Bible really and truly taught, my views on many things changed.

Of course, that is the VERY short version of my journey.

I also realize that for anyone who hasn't walked in my shoes, it's very easy to jump to judgment to just assume that I've taken the easy way out, or decided to just follow my flesh. But I know differently. This journey has been a tough one, one that has been done with much, much prayer.

[johnny44]

Originally Posted by faithit166

just a question why did you follow the pentecostal dress code in the first place

I make my wife wear the pentecostal dress code.She's not going on a job with her cannons all most falling out and the only one that's going to see her legs is me.

[MomOfADramaQn]

Originally Posted by johnny44

I make my wife wear the pentecostal dress code.She's not going on a job with her cannons all most falling out and the only one that's going to see her legs is me.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by johnny44

I make my wife wear the pentecostal dress code.She's not going on a job with her cannons all most falling out and the only one that's going to see her legs is me.

Don't you mean gonzos?

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by johnny44

I make my wife wear the pentecostal dress code.She's not going on a job with her cannons all most falling out and the only one that's going to see her legs is me.

You MAKE her? How exactly do you do that?