Question about biblical dress/modesty

[Neighbor]

In quite modern history there has been an American pastor that  also broke through the dress code  issue to reach out and invite many thousands to hear, receive, and heed, the gospel of our Lord and savior Jesus. He became known as the pastor to the hippies.

Very early on his own  church leaders/elders became concerned about the wear and tear on the upholstered pews and the carpets from these hippies bringing with them sand and grit.

 His response to them was, then rip out the pews and take up the carpet.

 

 

[The_Patriot21]

7 hours ago, Roymond said:

It should be noted that when Paul says women should dress modestly:

1. He's putting "modestly" in contrast with adorned with jewelry and fancy stuff

2. The context is prayer in church.

 

The first one came to a head in a Methodist church when I was a kid; some ladies got on this thing of chastising young people for not dressing modestly, but they were decorated like princesses in a palace.  One of the young people was smart enough to look up the reference and read it to them, pointing out that in terms of what Paul was saying, they were the ones not dressing modestly!  Of course that set the ladies on the war path.

The poor pastor was a man who didn't like offending anyone, so it fell to the head elder -- local high school varsity wrestling coach and administrative assistant -- to deal with this before it got out of hand.  Knowing how he could shame a student to tears with just polite words, I presume he did the same to those ladies, but he also worked the other side of it, telling the young people that when his wrestling team went to compete with another school they dressed in a way to show they were proud of their school -- and maybe coming to church ought to be the same.  At any rate, the young people started dressing in a more dignified fashion and the ladies seriously toned down their baubles.

You bring forth a good point. I think modesty can cover a wide variety of things. Modest isn't showing up in public wearing a two piece bikini, but it's also not overdoing it and drawing attention to yourself.

[Roymond]

On 1/14/2023 at 1:02 AM, Neighbor said:

In quite modern history there has been an American pastor that  also broke through the dress code  issue to reach out and invite many thousands to hear, receive, and heed, the gospel of our Lord and savior Jesus. He became known as the pastor to the hippies.

Very early on his own  church leaders/elders became concerned about the wear and tear on the upholstered pews and the carpets from these hippies bringing with them sand and grit.

 His response to them was, then rip out the pews and take up the carpet.

 

 

I know that story!

In fact a version of it happened where I grew up, when kids camping at the beach decide to go to church and almost invariably just went to the first church they came across when driving back from the beach.  But this pastor didn't say "rip out the pews", he responded, "Has God not given us vacuum cleaners?"

[other one]

3 minutes ago, believeinHim said:

Yes, Women should dress modestly, To an extent from where they've been, And to an extent to where they are going. I am a firm believer of dressing appropriately for the place you are going to be. If you are going to be at a Baptists church, Dress for a Baptists church. If you are going to be at a mega church, Relax a little bit. If you are going to be anywhere you obviously should know you should not be, Don't dress in anything because you obviously should know you should not be. If this doesn't make sense, I don't know how or why. I don't get what doesn't make sense about it. 

But men should not be lusting for women other than thier wives no matter what they wear......   period.