Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Dress Code

This last weekend at was at the mall with the rest of the world. As I sat down to lunch in the food court I saw a peculiar site. It was a old man dressed in Hindu attire from the turban on his head to the "dress" he wore. His presumed son sat across from him in an Aeropostale T-Shirt, faded blue jeans, and tennis shoes.

I marveled at the difference between the two men. In Hindu religion they dress their faith, and apparently the son was very liberal in his faith or had left the faith completely. Then I thought about the fact the father's father probably didn't even go to malls. It's a slow fade from their faith.

Then I began to think about us. What if sincere Christianity had a dress code? Would you go to the mall fully dressed according to your faith? Would your attire, if connected to your walk, look like your fathers, your grandfathers, the early church?

Would your Christianity suit look no different than the world's Aeropostale shirts?

Looking for the groom...

3 comments:

christian said...

This is dangerous ground to tread. If you choose to wear your faith, you may end up like many Apostolic Christians, who lift up externals as their signs of salvation, some(many? most?) go on living in secret sins.

E said...

Very true. I am in no way in favor of a dress code for Christianity for that very reason.

I just thought that status of modern faith was good to ponder.

E said...

I guess I was thinking through if we didn't get to chose our clothes but our level of committment to Christ did. What would be issued to us to wear?