You have perhaps noticed the decline in personal appearance. It seems that we have come to embrace a kind of in-your-face slovenliness that disrespects everyone we see. One observer of this has written:
“This is the first age in which people do not dress to please others, but dress to displease others, to make sure that everyone knows that I’m not going to make any effort just for you. And this, no doubt, is because I am as good as anyone in the world, bar none: His Majesty, myself. And what starts out as an attitude becomes an unexamined and ingrained habit.”
You can read the whole article here: takimag.com/slobbery_as_snobbery
This article is from a secular/business perspective but it does raise the question of how Christians should dress.No doubt you have seen pictures of “Christian” rock bands where the members, both in their expressions and in the way they are dressed, look like they are mad at the world.
This is probably something that few of us even think about. We just go with the flow, and the input of our friends. So, I will raise some questions. Can we glorify God (or not) by the way we dress? Does slovenliness in our appearance reflect Christ properly?
Our dress and our appearance does matter and Paul speaks to this in I Corinthians 10:31, “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” There is Christian liberty in the details, but how we dress has to be included in the “whatever you do.”
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