Well, I think the less attention paid to clothing and other
externals, the more attention can be paid to the internals. HeyPhil,
I wondered if GOD was ever that self-righteous, prejudiced
church. Talk about "churchianity"!
IN HIS MATCHLESS NAME,
purple Mari
At 09:29 AM 5/8/2007, you wrote:
>Vinny and others on this topic,
>
>I have been in this type of church, well, pretty close, and just the
>opposite. It works both ways, of course, but the most sickening was the big
>church I was in for 13 years that I on the board and traveled out from this
>church around the country as a guest preacher. This particular church
>favored the rich people in the church so ostentatiously, it was right down
>embarrassing. We had a Denver Bronco player coming to this church and some
>very wealthy business men, too. Mexicans and blacks were looked down upon
>and blacks were not encouraged to become members. Mexicans, we were told in
>the board meeting once, were ok but they are highly emotional people. I now
>have, of course, to mixed raced Mexican grandchildren and they seem as
>normal as my other granchildren so I don't know what they were talking
>about. If you drove into the parking lot in a nice 50,000 dollar car back
>then, wearing nice clothes, you were instantly accepted by the leadership.
>I've never been to disagree with the idea that it shows a little respect to
>dress appropriately for any occasion. I mean, when I did my son's wedding,
>I wore a tucks and not my suit. On the other hand, when I did my mother in
>laws funeral, I wore my suit and not a tuxedo. The sleeves fancy buttons
>kept getting caught on the lip of the large glass pulpit and rattling around
>and making it difficult, when they got caught, to read my Braille notes, but
>I sure felt dressed up that day.
>
>Phil.
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