Clothes line preaching, interesting. The Bible I read tells me of the many splendors of God. It tells me about the great love grace and mercy he has for man kind. It also tells me things I am suppsoed to do such as be under subjection to my man of God. My Pastor, My Shepard.
Our Shepards are the ones who will answer for the walk of the sheep left in his care. The ones God has called and harvested to their care.
The should clearly be teaching standards of Holiness. thsoe things that are acceptable to God and those things that are not.
There are requirements to what God expects from us. We live in a society that wants to believe they are saved on Sunday and can live like Hell on Monday but that is just not the case.
Now with that said, it is a journey that we are on. When a person is preparing a meal the raw ingredients are brought into the house. They are then placed in the coking area, then chooped up and each ingredient placed into the mix. Then placed into the oven, then you have a final result.
People shoudl not worry about how others are dressed to come to Church thats the Pastors job. no diffrent than your own children. I have a greater expectaiton of behavior out of my 25 year old than I do my 3 year old grandson.
New people, in the middle of the preperation, even right up to the fire people, should not be bothered with dress and such things and especially by anyone other than the Pastor.
We need to worry about taking a message of Jesus Loves you to them. We need to take the nmessage that we Love them as well. We need to tell them that the word of God says to come as you are. The clean up is up to God. God uses Ministers, Teachers, and Pastors to do the cleaning throught the Word.
God Bless