I grew up attending shirt and tie churches. Growing up my clothes had three categories: play clothes, school clothes and church clothes. So this morning on my way to church I look over out my window at a red light. In the car next to me is a man in a suit. My assumption (which could be wrong cuz we all know what assuming does) is that this man was headed to church bright and early on a Sunday morning.
Now to fully get the contrast let me tell you how I was dressed. I was in my usual jeans, button down shirts and some sanzy Steve Maddens I bought for a wedding I officiated. Now this is not a lesson on style as much as it is a lesson church.
In my childhood became this attachment to a way of dressing and where I was going. Unfortunately this taught me that church had a style. That church had a dress code. That church was a place. I am not here to fight about how we dress for our Sunday Worship services, but what I want to draw our attention to is that from a bible standpoint we are both wrong. You in your suit, me in my jeans.
Church is us, the you and the me. Church is not about buildings, it is about gathers the ecclessia which just means the assembly. So every time we gather over coffee, over dinner, or at our designated Sunday locations we are in church clothes not because of location but because it is who we are.
So I am working on changing my vocabulary. No more "church clothes" in my house. Just a closet full of clothes I wear as the church.
