Pontoon Boat Mooring Cover

What do you think about this? I am only asking other Christians here.

From a Christian Forum:

During this past Feast in Montego Bay in Jamaica, one of the more enjoyable activities during the Feast was an afternoon cruise in a catamaran. This is a fast boat built on pontoons which has both a motor and sails. Most went snorkeling. My experience not so successful. Visited Jimmy Buffets, a bar on the seashore that had large moored plastic rafts and innertubes, and a water slide from its second floor that dropped a rider into the Caribbean. The salt water stung my eyes: It’s not like swimming in Lake Michigan! But many of the young women and teenage girls (boat on pontoons) trip in ocean by Montego Bay in Jamaica during last Feast. Most wore bikinis or something else highly revealing. As a man, I knew I had the duty to keep my eyes from looking in certain directions. But should I have to do this during an officially organized church recreational event? It’s one thing to me to have to do this when walking around the Holiday Inn near the pools and beach when I was around people in the world, but why here?

S.P.S. We Christians have to fight the world’s fashion trends by wearing modest clothes ourselves instead of skimpy, revealing clothing.

I Timothy 2:9-10

What does “modesty” mean? “Webster’s” defines this word as meaning, “freedom from conceit or vanity . . . propriety in dress, speech, or conduct.” It isn’t “cool,” or the “in,” thing to do, but it’s what God commands. Is trying to fit in with the world our main goal in life? Should our clothing look the same as the world’s? It did on this boat trip during the Feast in Jamaica. It didn’t on the trip to Dunn’s River either, when we climbed the waterfalls.

My radical thinking when meditating on this later: Why should women’s clothing be any lower cut than men’s clothing? Casual men’s T-shirts are not low cut. Think of your typical rock and roll band T-shirt with (say) “Black Sabbath” or “Van Halen” emblazoned on it. So the difference in how men and women dress isn’t merely about comfort in hot climates merely. Men have less they need to cover up than women, but ironically cover their upper bodies better. Women’s clothing also dysfunctional: One of my jobs at work is to adjust thermostats up and down as needed after people complain. Here’s my general observation: At the same temperature where the men are comfortable, women are cold. Then when the men are hot, the women are comfortable. Two possible causes: Men’s metabolism is faster than women’s. But women also wear less: Men wear suits at church services but women often wear skirts and blouses. Therefore, much of women’s clothing is not merely immodest, it’s also dysfunctional!

We have two extremes: Conservative Muslims who wear not just the headscarf but also the veil. Jack Straw was recently the foreign secretary of Great Britain. As a member of Parliament, he once stirred up some trouble by asking his female Muslim constituents to remove their veils when talking to him. BBC News: “Asking women to consider showing the mouths and noses could lead to true “face-to-face” conservations with constituents, enabling him “to see what the other person means, and not just hear what they say.’” He said (WSJ, Bret Stephens) that “seeing people’s faces is fundamental to the relationships between people.” It’s harder to read someone’s emotions and to know what they think if you can’t see that person’s facial expressions.

But the fashion industry of Western society these days at the opposite extreme. To what extent do we as true Christians resist these trends? My impression from this boat trip is that we’re dressing nearly the same as the world around us. All of us need to dress for Christ.

My answer is no.
and I didn't read all that just the gist of it.
Just because I am Christian doesn't mean I shouldn't wear things that are appealing to me.

Your idea and my idea of modest may be two separate things.

Have a good one!!

Cinn =)

2009-05-05 16:30:04 by Wishing and Praying

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