April 4, 2013
I have often wondered about what has happened to the church that people have decided to wear their worst clothes to worship services? You may think this is good and yes there are many, many churches today growing with young people who look terrible. I was in a service a last week and all of the people leading worship looked like they had just ridden in on the midnight train and they had been on it shower less and in the same clothes for a week. One guy had big holes in the knees of his pants. Today this is what you will find in many, many churches, people standing in the front of the church looking terrible. All I could think of was that they would not go to work looking like that. On the other hand, maybe they do!
I have not been at a work place other than our own offices and the bank for years and no one there looks like people look in church today. Even the pastors have taken a step down in their preaching apparel. So what is the result of this?
Well, many churches are growing dramatically looking like bums. I hate to sound so critical of it all but I was raised with the mentality that you wore your best to church and you looked presentable. But those churches are dyeing today very, very fast and some of them are turning their buildings over to the churches that look like bums.
In thinking about this I was wondering if there isn’t some economics involved in all of this. Wearing rough, beaten up clothes to wherever you go sure cuts the cost of buying clothing. I think it points to an economic time that no one is talking about. The churches who have made this adjustment in their people’s clothing expectation have done a wonderful thing in leading people to Christ in a way that I am sure Jesus would have done.
So am I critical of this? NO! Am I dressing down to go to church? YES! But I personal would rather people dressed up to worship the Lord but I understand the struggle economically that many, many people have today and it is working. God is using this to reach the world for Christ and it is working. Praise the Lord!
My son, do not let wisdom and understanding out of your sight, preserve sound judgment and discretion; 22 they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck. -Proverbs 3:21-22
