All born again Christians only please?

Question

Have any of you born again Christian women been convicted to wear very modest dresses and a head covering for worship? I have and I wear a dress and covering like the Mennonites do for worship and any other Christian Bible studies. I just wondered if any other born again women do this too? Also, born again Christian men, do you prefer women to wear dresses instead of jeans? It does say in the Bible that women are not to wear clothing meant for men. I was out shopping the other day and for the first time I noticed just how really terrible pants and jeans looked on women. I felt bad wearing jeans instead of a modest dress. They say that women wore dresses for almost 6000 years and the last 25-40 years they started to wear pants and jeans. What do all of you other born again Christians think of this?

I got the dresses part out of the following verses:
1Timothy 2:9
Deuteronomy 22:5
1Peter 3:3-5
and I got the headcovering part from
1Corinthians 11:5

Also, part of my faith is pleasing God. It does say also that showing thighs are considered nakedness. Don't get me wrong, last summer I use to go tanning and wear shorts all the time. I have been saved only this last year. I have been getting convicted by the Holy Spirit over some issues of my sinful lifestyle. I just wonderd if anyone else has had these issues yet.

So you know, I have always been a jeans, tank top and hoodie person. I never intended to change that, but now I feel not modest in these types of clothing. This is why I ask this question. It has been a very big change for me.

Thomas_kn, yes I am married and my husband is from the Hutterite background. He does not mind what I wear.

Answer 1

I think that if you feel that the Lord is convicting you on the clothing issue that you should do what you feel He wants unless and until you feel He is leading you in another direction.
I think this issue is covered under "Christian Freedom". It may be an issue for you but not for someone else. If you feel it is a sin then it is a sin for you. Perhaps God is using you to influence someone to Him because of the change that this person sees in your dress. You might not know until heaven but it's never wrong to do what you think God is telling you to do--as long as it doesn't go against God's word.

Answer 2

I was in a church where the women only wore dresses or skirts and head coverings. It was very impractical in the snow, as we wore pants under our dresses and really that isn't very practical.

My church was very controlling, especially with the women. I no longer attend this kind of church and find that it was too stringent and manipulating. The concept to be modest went too far.

I love God more today and being the modest woman that I am, I have the freedom to chose to wear pants and it doesn't change my effectiveness as a christian or my faith. God looks at my heart not my clothing.

Answer 3

I think that is a personal issue between your own conscience and God. Personally, I get a little "offended" (for lack of a better word) to the head covering and abaya & veil thing because I tend to associate it with Islam (which I have a real problem with). The covering God looks for is two-fold 1) the covering of the Blood and 2) the covering of His Spirit. God is about the Spirit within you. Modesty is more than clothing, it is attitude. I've seen muslim women covered head to toe and not be as modest as some western women in shorts and a shirt. If you take care of the inside properly before God, the outside will take care of itself without going to societal "extremes." But again, don't violate your own conscience before God. If you feel that is what God wants YOU to do - go for it.

Answer 4

The Bible is actualy not as clear on the subject as to actual design of clothing... modesty is the issue... that dose apply to men as well... there is no reason to forbid pants for women based on The Bible... though some are clearlynot intended to be modest today... but is should be noted that the requirements of The Bible only apply to those of The Church and The Nation of Israel... not to those who do not believe... If you choose to dress as The Friends or the Amish or mennonites that is your choice... if you are doing it as your expression of your dedication to God and for God only, then He will acept that... but many today make a show of their "modesty"... which will earn them condemnation rather than acceptance... pride is a sin regardless of how it is dressed.

Answer 5

I think that God is much more interested in your heart than your clothes. If you, in response to what Christ has done for you, decide that you feel you should only wear a dress and no jeans or pants, then that is between you and your Lord. However, I would not begin to judge anyone else for making other choices. In Christ's salvation, we are freed from the bonds of sin. He paid the ultimate price for us so that we are completely free. He's much more interested in a relationship with each person than he is in what they choose to wear.

Answer 6

Fashions have a way of changing over the years and depending on which culture you are in. Jeans on women are accepted today just like earrings on men. Of course things used to be different. But I don't think that if something is accepted as apparel for women(Like jeans) that a woman is disobeying the bible if she wears them.

Answer 7

It does say for women not to wear mens clothing, and vice versa, but it never says that pants are strictly mens clothing. I have also never seen evidence that women wore dresses for 6000 years. As a matter of fact, men and women wore open-bottemed garments many times throughout the past and present. If you called all of these garments "dresses", then you could say that women wore dresses for most of the last 6000 years, but you could also by that rule say that MEN wore dresses for the past 6000 years.

The purpose of the command in the law about wearing clothing meant for the other gender is that men are not to dress up like women and women are not to dress up like men (transvestites). Another modern application of this verse would be sex changes, where men and women dress their bodies up as members of the opposite sex through surgery.

Tradition is not the key to interperating the Bible, but the Bible ought to be the light which we shine on our traditions to judge them. To make a statement that a dress is inherantly and intrensicly the clothing of women and pants are intrinsicly the clothing of men would require either 1) a Biblical statement saying so or 2) a complete cultural examination of the whole of planet Earth presently and throughout history, specifically of Jewish culture around the times of Moses and Jesus. Have you ever studied the clothing worn by both genders during these times? You should, you might learn some interesting things. Pants have become more popular in recent times because of the advent of sanitation. Before sanitation, pants were problematic for women especially, for reasons that most women would consider to be personal. But with modern knowledge of health, sanitation, and hygene this is no longer an issue.

Also, calling a dress "modest dress" and jeans not is not necessarily accurate. Both can be very immodest and both very modest (depending on length, tightness, and distance to the bellybutton). But with jeans you dont have the possibility of anything flying upward from a gust of wind, getting caught on a nail and torn away in a very revealing manner, or some other mishap which would likely be much more revealing than a similar mishap involving pants.

Anywho, that all being said, there is nothing wrong with dresses. My girlfriend primarily wears long skirts more often than pants, and I like it just fine! Pants are fine too, but she looks very pretty in a skirt or dress, and I'm glad that God blessed me with one of the few women that still wears them regularly. And dresses or no dresses modesty is a good and right too, and a lesson many people (even in the church) could learn.

One other thing I would point out to you is that just because you feel that something is a certain way does not make it so, and does not mean that it is God telling you. Contrary to popular belief, feeling is not how we tell what God's will is. "Let every matter be established by the testimony of 2 or 3 witnesses" as the Bible says, and the witness is the Bible itself. You have to teach yourself to learn God's will and know God's voice by reading His word. Then any feeling, thought, advice, dream, sermon, etc; that you encounter you can examine under the microscope of the Word of God. If it doesn't stand up, throw it out. God will always confirm His word and will to you by something more than just feelings (even if He starts out by prompting you with a feeling). And the primary way He will do this is through the Word. I had terrible problems in this area a few years ago, and was always thinking every feeling I had was God prompting me, and I got myself in all sorts of trouble from it. I even had some sources that would tell me my feelings were right, but I didn't know the Bible well enough to discern the truth, and had to much fear to question my feelings, for fear that God would judge me. Now I know God better, and I know His Word, and praise God do not have that problem anymore!

I hope some of this has shed some light! God bless!

Answer 8

God doesn't care what you look like, all he cares about is that you love him. It is the church that came up with those rules. It may say that in the Bible, but keep in mind that MAN wrote the Bible. It also has been edited, revised, and mistranslated so many times. I think you are taking that way to literally. If you are bought by the blood of Jesus, why are you so hung up on this vanity. That's what it is. Vanity. God doesn't care about jeans or dresses. He care about you. If you are judged by what you wear to church, then you need to leave that church. It should be about the word of God and worshiping God, not who wore what.

Answer 9

Jill when the bible states that women should not wear men's clothing it means not to wear them with the intent of attracting other women that's what that means!! And wearing a garment over the head is just symbolic of keeping Christ over your head for protection from Satan when he is here for five months pretending to be Christ. Satan's minions will be here also. These words are true and i hope it clarifies these matters. God bless

Answer 10

I dress more moderately, I wear jeans and dresses both, it's hard to find a decent dress now-a-days. I actually prefer to wear dresses, mid-calf length. I don't cover my head..The bible tells us not to worry about clothing,what we wear I thinks means very little if not nothing to God.