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11-21-2011, 02:35 PM
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Question on standards
I'm sure this has been covered somewhere in the 1000's of posts, so I'm sorry in advance!
Why is it important for a woman to wear dresses? Is this salvational? Why choose to keep this law and not other in the bible? Does it say anywhere that a woman is to wear a dress? Or simply dress modest and womanly? In the same thought, didn't men of biblical times wear "dresses"?
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11-21-2011, 02:38 PM
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Re: Question on standards
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Originally Posted by Angel48
I'm sure this has been covered somewhere in the 1000's of posts, so I'm sorry in advance!
Why is it important for a woman to wear dresses? Is this salvational? Why choose to keep this law and not other in the bible? Does it say anywhere that a woman is to wear a dress? Or simply dress modest and womanly? In the same thought, didn't men of biblical times wear "dresses"?
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Nothing in the Bible demands that a woman wear a dress. Now, it can be argued that a dress is more "modest" than pants, but that's often in the eye of the beholder.
Just seek to be conformed into the image of Jesus in both your heart and character. Be led of the Spirit, not the standards.
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11-21-2011, 02:41 PM
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Re: Question on standards
Angel, you are going to a UPC church right?
do most of the women wear dresses?
If so, I would recommend wearing a dress or skirt to church.
the UPC church has roots in the holiness movement and has carried on with many of the holiness traditions,
for a female this typically means wearing skirts/dresses and having long hair
dressing modestly. Take a good look at the Pastor's wife and note how she dresses.
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11-21-2011, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Amanah
Angel, you are going to a UPC church right?
do most of the women wear dresses?
If so, I would recommend wearing a dress or skirt to church.
the UPC church has roots in the holiness movement and has carried on with many of the holiness traditions,
for a female this typically means wearing skirts/dresses and having long hair
dressing modestly. Take a good look at the Pastor's wife and note how she dresses.
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It is UPC... And I know they teach skirts and no hair cutting etc. problem I have with that is that just wearing a skirt to church, even though I do mostly, it seems dishonest to go out of my way to do so. If on a mid week service, I'm wearing jeans when it's time to leave for church, I will wear what I have on. I'm not trying to hide who I am, what I do or what I wear. So wouldn't the deception be worse?
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11-21-2011, 02:58 PM
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Re: Question on standards
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Originally Posted by Angel48
It is UPC... And I know they teach skirts and no hair cutting etc. problem I have with that is that just wearing a skirt to church, even though I do mostly, it seems dishonest to go out of my way to do so. If on a mid week service, I'm wearing jeans when it's time to leave for church, I will wear what I have on. I'm not trying to hide who I am, what I do or what I wear. So wouldn't the deception be worse?
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In the early 1900's in American society, all "decent" women wore dresses. At this same time, the current holiness movement started. This, imo, is the reason for the standard. It does go back to the biblical commandment that a woman should not wear men's apparel or a man put on a woman's garment.
It is true that now the line is quite blurred in society.
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11-21-2011, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by aegsm76
In the early 1900's in American society, all "decent" women wore dresses. At this same time, the current holiness movement started. This, imo, is the reason for the standard. It does go back to the biblical commandment that a woman should not wear men's apparel or a man put on a woman's garment.
It is true that now the line is quite blurred in society.
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That's exactly what I wondered! This actually clears up so much for me.
I am the mother of a teenage daughter, so I 100% believe in dressing modestly. I just can't believe I am going to hell for wearing slacks, trimming my hair or wearing makeup if I choose.
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11-21-2011, 03:10 PM
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Re: Question on standards
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That's exactly what I wondered! This actually clears up so much for me.
I am the mother of a teenage daughter, so I 100% believe in dressing modestly. I just can't believe I am going to hell for wearing slacks, trimming my hair or wearing makeup if I choose.
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Now, don't get me wrong, I am as conservative as anyone here and more than most.
I attend a church that preaches dresses for women, no makeup and no trimming hair.
It is all about where your heart is located.
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11-21-2011, 06:05 PM
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Re: Question on standards
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Originally Posted by Angel48
It is UPC... And I know they teach skirts and no hair cutting etc. problem I have with that is that just wearing a skirt to church, even though I do mostly, it seems dishonest to go out of my way to do so. If on a mid week service, I'm wearing jeans when it's time to leave for church, I will wear what I have on. I'm not trying to hide who I am, what I do or what I wear. So wouldn't the deception be worse?
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Good luck with that!!!! Let us know how it goes after you show up a few times for the midweek service with pants on.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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11-21-2011, 06:52 PM
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Good luck with that!!!! Let us know how it goes after you show up a few times for the midweek service with pants on.
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I have gone to church with jeans/slacks..many times. Never has the pastor said anything or anyone else for that matter. It is that I notice that people tend to "fake" things for the sake appearance at church. By coming to church in skirts and hair in a bun, but getting pictures of themselves posted on Facebook wearing sweatpants.
The only thing my Pastor has preached on is cutting hair.
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11-21-2011, 02:56 PM
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Re: Question on standards
what do you feel in your heart to do?
do that then.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. ~Tolkien
Refusing to sit under the false gospel and false doctrine of false teachers is not "forsaking the Assembly"
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