Your experience when you dropped "dress standards"

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Amen - His Spirit is so very powerful, working, personal and awesome.

To be fair, though, I see a core of people, with standards, that are solid as a rock - faithful and full of compassion, love and a desire to see all men saved.

Well, of course.... that would be my entire family. My family is strongly conservative, and truly love God with their whole hearts.

But I can still see some flaws in the way we've done things.

[*AQuietPlace*]

First things I did:

Got a Christmas tree
Painted my fingernails with clear polish
Started watching Andy Griffith

That's about as bad as it's gotten so far, folks.

[Neck]

Originally Posted by stmatthew

For those of you that left "dress standards" please share with us standards keepers just how it came about and what you did.


When and How did it happen?



What was the first thing you did (what standard did you do away with first)??



How did you feel??

Normal, peaceful, for sure not less spiritual or lost....

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

Well, of course.... that would be my entire family. My family is strongly conservative, and truly love God with their whole hearts.

But I can still see some flaws in the way we've done things.

Oh, certainly! What I don't like doing is not making room for those that follow a certain path according to their heart and what they feel God speaks to them.

Our oldest son and his wife are not in the organization and they have women coming in who testify of God speaking to them about changing their clothing from pants to a dress.

We had a women just receive the Holy Ghost who was so glad to dress differently in order to feel like a lady. Does that mean that someone wearing pants doesn't feel like a lady? Certainly not! But for some of these women it does. That is why I won't get on a bandwagon for or against.

When my daughter came back to God she says that she changes on the inside, in not a good way, wearing pants. That is something she cannot do. It is something that I cannot do. It changes me on the inside. I have boundaries that God has set for me. I don't want to judge other's boundaries and I certainly want to be careful making a clarion call for anyone.

I will agree that some follow a stand without knowing why. That is not a good thing. We must all have a personal relationship with God in order to find out, one way or the other, where He wants us to stand, how he wants us to walk, how He wants us to represent Him. It won't be the same for everyone, as a whole. It's always going to be an individual thing. That's the way it should be.

Although we do see those that follow blindly, there are many that do not. They know their God and who they serve!

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by MrsMcD

I thought I was the only kid that couldn't play with dice.

I wasn't allowed to either. Or play Bingo.

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by nahkoe

I wasn't allowed to either. Or play Bingo.

I couldn't play with dice, playing cards, or dominoes. We could play Bingo.

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

I couldn't play with dice, playing cards, or dominoes. We could play Bingo.

I forgot dominoes! We couldn't play with those either. But we could play with cards. Some games. I think my mom lost 10 years off her life though when I told her I knew how to play poker (I definitely did not point out that I learned by playing strip poker at a friend's house!) No, I haven't done that again. lol But I still play poker.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by nahkoe

I forgot dominoes! We couldn't play with those either. But we could play with cards. Some games. I think my mom lost 10 years off her life though when I told her I knew how to play poker (I definitely did not point out that I learned by playing strip poker at a friend's house!) No, I haven't done that again. lol But I still play poker.

Did you tell her gently? Or did you just blurt out one day "...and then I made the 10 High straight on the river...." Or "...and amazingly I made a three of a kind on the flop!"?

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Did you tell her gently? Or did you just blurt out one day "...and then I made the 10 High straight on the river...." Or "...and amazingly I made a three of a kind on the flop!"?

I was like 12 and didn't realize that poker was a bad game. See, I do think on my feet sometimes. I did have the common sense to realize that if poker was bad, strip poker was worse. I stopped with the crushing blow of poker that was accidentally leveled during innocent conversation.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

First things I did:

Got a Christmas tree
Painted my fingernails with clear polish
Started watching Andy Griffith

That's about as bad as it's gotten so far, folks.

Hmmmm......we did all these growing up, and I thought we were ultra strict! I just didn't know.