excuse me, but when you have a teen girl that wears shorts short enough that half her bottom hangs out,and a blouse that you can see her cleavage, and if you think that is appropriate, the you have issues, I myself find it offensive that a girl would dress like that in the LORD House.
I am always in a dress,I dress nicely because I Love my Husband,and the lord with all of my heart,and I feel a woman should dress like a woman not something that is in appropriate.
You should not be judging me for what I believe,That is for the Lord to do, and you are Not the Lord.To each there own opinion, if you read what I typed earlier I said
"I myself feel you should dress nice," I MYSELF.
in our modern society ,good dress code has greatly changed as fashions do.
ie suit and tie is now mostly considered correct formal wear by those in high-standing of influence and money .(or worldliness)
respectable wear has reduced to clothes with not to much wear and tear and really has not too much other rule governing it . save for perhaps some restrictions on foot wear ..like flip-flops in a high class restaurant may be frowned upon and probably night clubs where what is acceptable is actually based on how self glorifying it is .(thought they dont say it that way )
However you are refering to a goup of people gathering to worship God .. to GLORIFY HIM.. not ourselves . and in that setting i think you are correct .
firstly it should be about love for the lord Jesus .. then about playing our part to glorify
him NOT OUR FLESH .. so .. it has nothing to do with the quality of our clothes and everything to do with modesty so that we do not elevate our own flesh to draw attention to our own flesh .
rags are fine .. as long as they are worn to downplay the flesh .
any honest guy wil tell you that skin ..even hidden beneath clothing if the clothing is designed to accentuate the flesh ..is the most annoying added distraction to have to tune out during worship .. so it is also a massive act of disrespect to fellow worshiper to dress in even the slightest manner that could be provocative to the flesh .. it is not an act of love in Jesus but an act of love of self .
having said all that .. my advice is simply .. get dressed stand by your mirror and say" hey lord what do you think is this ok ? then OBEY the Holy Spirit .. and you'll do just fine .. God bless you .
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oh ps - if someone arrives dressed with butt and cleavage hanging out all over and says they asked the lord and he said its fine ,well ... by their fruits ye shall know them .... nuff said .
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ANd -what does the bible say about it ...
1 Timothy 2:9 - In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (Read More...)
1 Timothy 2:9-10 - In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; (Read More...)
Proverbs 31:30 - Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
1 Peter 3:3-4 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; (Read More...)
Proverbs 11:22 - [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
1 Peter 3:1-4 - Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (Read More...)
1 Timothy 2:8-10 - I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. (Read More...)
1 Samuel 16:7 - But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
Matthew 5:28 - But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
1 John 2:16 - For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 Peter 5:5-6 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. (Read More...)
Matthew 5:27-28 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: (Read More...)
Deuteronomy 22:5 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Peter 3:3 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
John 7:24 - Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Matthew 6:1 - Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
1 Corinthians 6:19 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Proverbs 7:10 - And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Matthew 18:6-7 - But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea. (Read More...)
James 1:15 - Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Leviticus 19:28 - Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.
1 Corinthians 12:23 - And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.
1 Corinthians 7:3-5 - Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. (Read More...)
Galatians 3:23-25 - But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (Read More...)
Ephesians 2:15 - Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;
