Julio Martinez Jr
Puritan Board Freshman
So I have a conundrum with this issue of church discipline. Firstly, I am a presbyterian member of a local church, so I understand the issues of church discipline. I also have a "growing pain" with people who think that they can be called a Christian and not be part of a local church. This isn't my problem, though. My problem has to do with the dress code of women in the church and how they need to conduct themselves in the church. I've been in a debate with some people who claim the name of Christ but who do not attend nor are under the discipline of the church.
These are the loci of the debate:
These are the loci of the debate:
- Women should not be infringed based of what she wears in the church, i.e., high heels.
- Individuals with a personal problem ought not to impose upon the women in the church their personal convictions.
- The church should force a woman to change her clothes if it stumbles a significant amount of men in the church.
- The women in the church should be considerate about her brothers' purity with two corollaries in mind:
- That she is there to worship God in word and deed and should exhibit that worship in her dress; and
- She should shop for clothes with the intention that is without bombast (=showy, flaunt or scandalous).
I believe it's the underlying attitude of certain Christians that really bothers me. It is cavalier and frankly too bombastically clothed in mutiny. If you have any suggestions and/or opinions contrary to mine, please let me know. I am open to correction.Question 85. How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by christian discipline?
Answer:Thus: when according to the command of Christ, those, who under the name of christians, maintain doctrines, or practices inconsistent therewith, and will not, after having been often brotherly admonished, renounce their errors and wicked course of life, are complained of to the church, or to those, who are thereunto appointed by the church; and if they despise their admonition, are by them forbidden the use of the sacraments; whereby they are excluded from the christian church, and by God himself from the kingdom of Christ; and when they promise and show real amendment, are again received as members of Christ and his church (Heidelberg Catechism, 85).
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