IS THERE A CHRISTIAN DRESSING CODE?

[Michael Shimiyu]

Despite what my sons might wear to church occaisionally, as long as what is on their T-shirts isnt offensive, then it is what is in their hearts that is important. After all they aren't alone in what they wear.They hunger to go to Youth group every Friday night and Bible study on Sunday afternoon followed by Sunday evening dinner at Church & then Church itself. Over the next few years they will (as I did) outgrow the band-emblazoned T-shirt phase.

I understand where you are coming from Michael but is it such a problem among young Christians? From where I sit I don't see it as an issue at all.

Mark, I think I can understand that the issue of dress is a struggle for youngsters, especially as parents tend to increasingly loose their parental rights to dicide for, and or repremand-their children.

But please acknowledge the fact that the problem is not only with youngsters....it has, as many of us have tried to defend, to do with culture, (or sub-cultures, to be exact). Now is it a problem from where I live? An emphatic Yes on that! The main concern here is that the believers (boys and girls, men and women alike -of course exempt the elderly) are being obsessed by the desire to barely cover their bodies in a respectable manner. The gaments tend to go high up - from knees up; and down- from chest below, converging as it were to the waist! And that is where I bemorn lack of a code!

But things were different in Moses and Aaron's time. Nakedness was not allowed in the congregation and the pew!

Exodus 28:42-43
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach: [43] And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.

There were laws, commandments, statutes, etc. during the OT detailing most of the social issues including dressing for ministers (Priests) as well as for lay people. Few cases in the OT trouble me though like 2 Sam 6:20-23. I believe though that God has never changed. The same moral standard applies today, with the exception that in the NT it is the Holy Spirit who should usher a believer into a desire to abide to the law of liberty! What about a code?