Should what you wear matter?
I recently sat through a session on values of a church with a few hundred pastors and I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I tried but something inside of me just couldn’t handle it. I thought I was doing well when I chose not to voice my concern when the speaker expressed that he felt it was important for him to be the best dressed person in whatever room he was in as a representative of Christ. Further, failure to take the task of “dressing up” seriously gives way to apathy and a low view of God. I sat and digested that one without a word because it was a tangent comment off of the value of having a High view of God.
A later value caused me to respond. It was the value of having a Low view of man. I would have signed off on this value just two years ago but it was an exercise by a youth pastor at Mosaic who has since caused me some further reflection. I firmly believe scripture is accurate and clear in stating that people are all born sinful and that in and of ourselves we can do nothing to be saved. But is that where we really start? So my hand went up and I stated that I had been struggling with this for quite sometime and asked, “wouldn’t it be more accurate to have a lost view of man rather then a low view of man?” He didn’t pick up what I was saying and said it might be semantics. But I really do wonder. Were we not in God’s mind long before we were conceived? And in God’s mind was intent to redeem what had been stolen, lost, and given away rather then redeem, save, and rescue what was never pure in the first place?
Just some thoughts but I really don’t think it matters what we wear.
