Note from Pastor Dewey: Also read this disturbing story about teachers having to be told to wear underwear! https://fggam.org/for-heavens-sake-is-this-the-world-we-live-in-having-to-tell-teachers-to-wear-underwear/
JENNIFER LECLAIRE of Charismanews: About a month ago, I asked a pointed question: “Why Do So Many ‘Born-Again, Spirit-Filled’ Women Show Off Cleavage in Church?” It set off a firestorm of debate but sparked a number of other stories and sermons on the issue. I got emails from folks telling me about various magazines and bloggers discussing the topic—and pastors preaching on the controversial subject of, yes, modesty.
I don’t know if Apostle Michael Canty of the Truth Ministries Holiness Church saw my article or not. I haven’t been able to reach him. But the apostolic pastor certainly created a stir in his local church when he refused to marry a bride and groom because he felt her dress was too “sexy,” according to a report in AmericaPreachers.com. Here’s a segment of the story:
This has never been discussed in Protestant church very much if not at all be cause they seem to not care about dress and do not discourage the fact woman and men should have the deepest respect in the house of the Lord. If not they should be told to go home and put on less revealing clothes. Remember when Jesus was talking to the man at the cemetery filled with evil spirits and he cleansed him but the Man asked Jesus if he could join his disciples and Jesus told him to first go home and put on some clothes It was a requirement in the church that Jesus was putting together. I always ask my self WWJD!
Thank you Nancy, I get some heat when I start preaching on dress! My goodness I am embarrassed on how some folks dress for church. I guess I am an old fuddy duddy!
PS……I also have concerns how folks are tattooing themselves, on this I also take heat. I see no reason for this marking of our God given bodies, our temples.
This is a discussion the Church must have….I see it as the foundation crumbling…people showing too much flesh, yes and tattoos and piercing are out of control….It is a cry out for attention in many instances….this is a subject I know I will take heat, but so be it. It is one of the symptoms of a society that wants to draw attention to themselves.
I agree and I also feel that because of humanism people have let things that are not right happen and say nothing even though it is not for Christians to be doing or agreeing with. As the fact gays are allowed into the house of God and when children tear anthers clothes in school and the parent asks for the other child to sew it back together the teachers do it for them.Humanism it started back in the 80’s and has led to the beginning of a great disaster in our country letting the Civil Liberty’s Union run our homes schools churches government etc. That’s one group of people that are to me terrorists it has led to the destruction of our country’s morals in all these places because no one stopped it because of fear or not being in like Flin.
Tattoos are Biblical and you never disfigure the temple of Our Living God he will not dwell in an unclean vessel we put off the old flasks and become new and clean flasks for new wine the new covenant of the Holy Spirit.
And you are not an old Fuddy Duddy! You are correct pastor,the bible has changed in mans eyes and God’s word stands forever it shall never be changed.
Oh I almost forgot her dress was not sexy it was revealing that would have been a much more appropriate word to use nothing is sexy if it is exposed it is just filthy in Gods house!!
It becomes really hard when we become the judge of others… Everyone has their own list of opinions on all sorts of subjects. I like to call them personal convictions. Personal convictions don’t usually have a biblical base to them, let’s just use this for example, the bible doesn’t talk about watching soap operas but I choose as a personal conviction not to watch them, it’s my choice not to and my choice cannot be pushed on anyone else because there is nothing in the bible saying not to specifically watch those types of shows. I can’t be a judge to anyone because they watch those shows and I don’t. As I read this article about this young woman getting ready for her wedding, I felt bad for her, I remember my wedding day and how exciting it was, preparing for the special day. As women we dream of this day since we were little girls and now the day has arrived. Let’s just for a second, think of the woman and forget about the dress. We don’t know this ladies story, maybe she lost 150 pounds before this wedding and she was feeling good about all the hard work she did. Maybe the pastor was dealing with some lust issues and he couldn’t handle the dress himself, there are so many variables in the story that we don’t know. Looking at the photo of the dress, would I have picked that, certainly not, would I let one of my daughters wear that kind of dress, certainly not, but I surely wouldn’t have stopped someone’s wedding because of it. This was not a Sunday morning church service, she was not getting up to give a word of the Lord to the people, and we don’t even know if she was saved or not? What a great testimony for this young woman, to have a church tell her they couldn’t marry her because of her dress… Haven’t we given the outside world enough of this judgmental, petty “Christian/Church stuff for them to talk about? She will really want to be “one of us.” I cannot wait for the day to read an article saying, “Shocking News: Church loved and accepted large amounts of people today, just as they are.” Maybe I am too much on the grace side, maybe I look at the heart too much and I want their souls saved not their closets. I can almost guarantee she will not darken the door of another church for some time now. Let us not forget the reason for the church; it is not for the perfect and pristine. It is for the broken, lost and hurting. Modesty is very important, please don’t get me wrong, but to not marry this woman, a half hour to an hour before the wedding, in my opinion was wrong, but like I said before, that’s just my opinion.:)
Good words Kristen!
For me and it is not just my opinion,it is biblical that woman are to dress modest and modest in them days meant clean and not to look like a tramp that is exposed it is what the Father meant when he gave the laws, and Jesus came back not to change one tittle of the laws he came to finish them for once and for all to establish his fathers laws,little things grow because people take advantage there is always someone who will start a new method of making what the Lord put together a derogatory statement like they knew his so well he couldn’t have said this or that?one don’t have to look far to know what Jesus said 200 years ago is now in the making Men will be lovers of them selves and you would not be able to know what is a man or a woman all these things were told before hand,There is nothing wrong for the church to have a dress code to follow.
My Carol and I have been married almost 52 years and I can guarantee if she saw me seeing something like the model in the “dress,” I would be blind in one eye and unable to see out of the other.
Simple solution to this dilemma. Part of the pre-marital counseling should include what is expected as far as the “dress code,” is concerned.
Just my dos centavos.
@Chuck….. My husband agrees with your first statement and Amen to the second..!!! Simple solution :)
I also agree but you know many do not go to churches and do this they call a pastor and ask his or her if they will perform this ceremony and so on but some times they don’t belong to this church and he does it or is shocked to fine they are not members and this is a problem pastors should do their home work,then read them what is expected in the house of the Lord.
We who are bible-believing born-again children of God, should not be intimidated to “conform to the patterns of this world”. The pastor who cancelled the wedding on grounds of a revealing wedding dress was right. Would it be correct/right to conduct a wedding ceremony for a couple in their swimwear? What about if they chose to be in the nude?
“What sorrow awaits the world, because it tempts people to sin. Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting.” (Matthew 18:7). I applaud the pastor for saving the bride from facing the wrath of God for tempting the congregation by her revealing wedding dress! We need more people who are as principled as this pastor.