Posted on 07/13/2015 6:22:25 AM PDT by Salvation
Amazing how often I get to trot this out:
POORLY DRESSED MAN
With no apologies to ZZ TopClean shirt, shined shoes
Hope it gets me where I'm goin’ to
Silk suit, black tie
Fire insurance is my reason why
Sanctificatin' just as fast as I can, 'coz there
Ain't no forgiveness for a poorly dressed man.Gold watch, pinky ring
Hope the Good Lord likes all my bling bling
Cufflinks, "Knights" pin
You ain't got one? You ain't gettin' in!
Ushers not comin’ with no plates in their hands, 'coz
A widow's mite gets you just a poorly dressed manTop coat, top hat
cummerbund to hide my body fat
Black suede Bible cover
for my Vulgate, it ain't like no other
Angels lift my patent leather soles off the sand, 'coz
In Heaven there's no seating for a poorly dressed man
When it comes to judging others by how they dress for church, I follow the example of the late great Lewis Grizzard.
One Sunday a young woman attempted to sit in the pew in front of me. Attempted because her legs were so long & her miniskirt so short, that she literally had to sit nearly sideways. I raised my eyes heavenward & prayed,
“O Lord, I do thank Thee for vouchsafing unto me, Thy humble servant, this heavenly vision of some of the beautiful things which Thou hast made!”
(flameproof suit donned)
;^)
More rules to separate the members of the church from the people and make new comers feel less welcome. I have seen it and even have had people say to me that they were glad that they could come to our church “dressed down” and were accepted as they were.... jeans and all. Some had fallen on hard times and didn’t have nice clothes. They felt that when they attended a “traditional” church that everyone dressed up, that they were looked down upon. That was really a shame because they turned out to be a really nice family.
In the South parking lots are above 100 degrees and we dress a bit lighter than many yankees on Sunday.
No, I am not joking.
“Give God your best. You have to decide what that means.”
I’m Baptist, FWIW. I mostly agree with this.
I often am outdoors riding horses or doing some work in the cool of the morning before church. So I shower. I then put on fresh, clean jeans. No holes. Standard jeans - the only kind I own. Wranglers, $17 at Walmart.
I don’t mind someone else wearing a T-shirt, and have myself at times. But I usually think a button down shirt is better. I normally grab a bolo tie - the Official State neck tie of Arizona.
I’ll make sure I’ve shaved and my hair is combed.
We go to church to worship and encounter the God of the Universe. Yes, He sent me in to the world naked, but that doesn’t mean He wants me to come to church that way.
In the small semi-rural Arizona church I go to, the pastor wears a tie. Maybe once a month, I’ll see another man wearing a tie. Bolo ties are commonly worn by the older men, like myself. Younger men almost never wear a tie of any kind.
I wear sneakers about 50% of the time. Most of the men do. I wear cowboy boots the rest of the time. For the morning service, I’m more likely to wear dress boots.
Unless someone is wearing clothes that are likely to distract others, I reckon it isn’t my business. A woman who came wearing a bikini would be told to cover up. A woman wearing a dress with the cleavage at her navel would be asked to cover up. A guy without a shirt, likewise.
Someone wearing an old T-shirt, shorts and flip flops would be welcomed. None of the regulars dress like that, and we honestly haven’t had many who do. We should approach God with reverence and the fear of the Lord. But how that translates into dress depends.
However, I do miss the days when people didn’t wear their pajamas in public, and sweats were for sweating in during a workout, and no one thought their crotch needed to be displayed to the rest of the world!
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My pet peeves are this:
1. Men who wear hats inside the sanctuary (this includes metro-millennial watch caps).
2. Visible tats.
3. Shorts and t-shirts.
4. Dresses above mid-thigh.
5. Backless dresses.
6. Visible underwear and bras.
7. Over-abundant cleavage.
Mark 7
Since it was a short trip, I only had packed a polo shirt and a suit for the interview. "Don't wear the suit," he warned me, "you'd be greatly overdressed."
So I wore the polo shirt and was still overdressed.
When I was a young girl I remember owning a matching outfit. It was a Saturday outfit consisting of a blouse shorts and a wraparound skirt and a triangle kerchief. I think one work the shorts all Saturday and the wrap around skirt fit over it so one could go to confession Saturday afternoon and of course pop the kerchief on one’s head.
With sneakers or sandals of course.
I missed two:
8. Flipflops, sandals, or mandles.
9. Starbucks or over beverage being swilled during service.
I can’t imagine anyone turning someone away from a worship service no matter how they are dressed. That being said, I believe that the way you dress is a display of the respect you have for coming into the presence of God.
I love The Lord with all my heart, to me wearing less than a nice suit would be disrespectful. I would not go to a meeting with the president of the United States in blue jeans. I would not go to visit the Queen of England in a Tee Shirt. In those two circumstances you can bet I would be wearing a freshly cleaned suit with a winkle free clean white shirt and nice tie. My shoes will be shined, my skin will be clean and my hair combed.
Some people probably don’t feel as close to The Lord as I do and to them they don’t understand this feeling of respect, they may be coming to find out if there is a God, how can you respect something you aren’t sure you believe exists, so for those people less formal attire may be appropriate. I know Him and I will not disrespect Him. I will wear the best I have when I come to His House.
The church I attend simply says, dress modestly. We'd would rather have the people in the doors to hear the Word, even in T-shirts and jeans, than passing it by, worried about whether they're "dressed up" enough.
It has been my experience that the attire of the congregation is correlated to the respect for the Blessed Sacrament.
Sometimes the congregation isn’t well informed, or well catechized, and thus the attire. I was really shocked, in one parish, to find people wearing the local NFL jersey to Mass on game day. While it is good they went to Mass, it is certainly more important than football.
Not catholic but there are many times I took the kids to church in their sports uniforms as we had a game right after church There are also times when I attend in scrubs either on the way or on the way home from work I think God would rather have me there in scrubs than not at all.....
BTTT! Good comments.
**Starbucks or over beverage being swilled during service.**
People can be asked to finish their drink in the vestibule, then enter the sanctuary part of the church.
Scrubs would be OK; I totally understand.
One of the most moving scenes, of course I was sobbing, was the Little League All-Star team in full uniform (including cleats) serving as pall bearer for my husband’s casket at his funeral.
(My husband had been president of the local Little League teams for several years, but had passed that duty on to someone else.)
Yesterday I wore Jeans, T-Shirt, hoodie and sneakers ...
Jesus wore a dress...
My husband as a kid had to sit with his class - this was the Bronx. Jackets and ties always. We never had air-conditioning in church - most of the churches were stone and therefore pretty cool. But if we were caught fanning ourselves, Sister would swoop down with that clicker!
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