Most standards I have heard preached are minimal. If we have a relationship with
Jesus we can hear his voice.
If we only rely on the preacher than we are in sad shape indeed.
Let me share just a few examples.
These are things we do without the preacher telling us.
We don't watch tv in our home because its mostly garbage. Even the news is tainted.
The newspaper is filled with depressing stuff. Read it and try to pick out positive things. You will have a problem with finding any. I read it and pray against junk that
is happening in our world.
I can choose where I surf on the net. Tv throws it in your
face and once you have seen the junk its hard to erase the image of it. Maybe you
are different than me and its not so hard for you.
I feel that gender is an issue so I stay away from styles that are manly.
I feel the society paints a picture of a woman that Jesus does not. I stay
away from what it expects me to be and try to personify what Jesus' word says.
The world's standard of modesty is way below the Bible standard of modesty.
I don't need someone to pound it into my mind. I can see that the Bible teaches
it and have enough Holy Ghost to know what to wear and what not to wear.
The problem I have with people who pound standards and try to define every little
line is that they go over board. Women are not born evil and out trying to
get every man to fall into sin. We are beautiful and intelligent and know our
Bibles. We are not Amish and do not need to look like an 1800 photograph.
We can read the word and know how to dress and behave. We are able to do
work in the Kingdom and fulfill the call of Jesus Christ and still be Biblical in
the way we dress and behave. We do not need to look like Grandmas at 20 years old
nor do we need to look like the cover of Cosmo. We have been given the same
Holy Ghost as the men in the church and we are not weak spirited. We pray and
fast and read the Word and are used by Jesus in our world. Great works
have been done by women who are submitted to Jesus.
In Jesus,
Dana Klein
