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Thank you for posting this, ljm14! Adoniram Judson is one of my missionary heroes. God used him in a very unexpected way to reach the Karen tribespeople when he was aiming at the Burmese (and of course he saw many of them saved too)! We have had several of the spiritual heirs of Judson's...

A sport coat and a tie. Oh, yes, and pants! :Biggrin But I love ties with a message and have some of those, including two with "Faith, Hope, Love" in Chinese and English. If you come in our church modestly dressed, you will be warmly welcomed with no criticism. There's Scripture for that, as...

@ anyone Just went to a memorial service for an old friend, Harry. They had the actual funeral elsewhere, but allowed us to have a memorial service because we were Harry's church. Harry was a unique individual: a Marine, a salesman, a faithful church member and usher, one-armed (cancer in his...

This whole answer was aimed at Jon, rather than you. He aimed his post at you with the @ mark, but I had been discussing the subject with him, and simply chimed in, thinking Jon was answering me, since I had been dialoguing with him over the subject you talked about. Hey, I'm 73. We're allowed...

This is oversimplification. What any church needs to grow is fostering relationships and winning souls through the power of the Holy Spirit. It is not the style of music, nor whether the pastor and deacons wear a suit or not, etc. I have told how our church has a lot of folks wearing suits and...

The wife and I are on a road trip vacation, and I'm at my sister's in Cincy. She has MSNBC on, some kind of news show. The two men both have suits/sport coats on, but only one has a necktie. Hmmm. :Coffee

Too much information!! :oops: Yes, requesting.

I agree. And it is not Baptistic, either.

Any Charismatic doctrine, TULIP, inerrant translation, elder rule instead of pastoral leadership

Better than an indecent shirt! :Biggrin Just now watching a clip on YouTube from Britain's Got Talent. The competitor in the clip and one of the judges both are wearing suits. So I guess a suit is good enough to show respect on a TV show, but not in God's house.... :Coffee

Many others wear suits besides businessmen in the States: lawyers, counselors, profs, pastors, etc. etc. (We retired from the mission field 11 years ago, and I am a Bible college prof now.) 1. In the first place, it's not a business suit to me. I've never thought of it as a business suit, and...

Simply going into a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine is not what I am talking about. Actually participating in a pagan festival is idolatry. Simply going into their building is not. I've been in both a Buddhist temple (the mission director from the States wanted to see one) and a Shinto shrine...

The best Scripture for this issue, IMO, is 1 Cor. 10:32, "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God." So the standard for a Christian in many of these issues is to avoid giving offense to the people in the culture one is trying to reach (Context: 1...

Save your knees for your wife, please.

Very ugly. Men's knees should never be seen in public, much less with a coat and tie.

Very interesting. Thank you. Truly weird. But as a kid I was made to wear a wool suit with short pants. Then I grew out of it, right? But I had an older brother and got all of his hand-me-downs. Confused

I am positive a T shirt is not appropriate professional attire in many professions: medical, legal, law enforcement (Secret Service and FBI wear suits), etc. Look at the lawyers on this Youtube link after I just searched "lawyer": https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lawyer. Suits...

I was speaking historically, trying to help you or other readers understand what happened to evangelicalism in the 1950s. To me knowing that history explains a lot about the movement in 2025. You must be kidding. A T shirt for $800??? See, I can't understand this. We're going to go our...

I don't believe I said on this thread anything about a suit and tie. I wear a suit and tie to church because I'm on the staff of the college the church has. But I don't believe a suit and tie are necessary for the typical church goer. Some of our deacons just wear a collar shirt, and I'm fine...

Okay, done with that. There's no such thing as "evangelical clothing." That wasn't my meaning. I simply meant evangelical used to think it was good to wear decent clothing to church to honor the Lord. And I don't think I ever said anything about casual clothing to church being "an invention of...