Dressing Up for Church: The Christian's Sunday Best
It’s Sunday morning. You’re frazzled, bleary-eyed from a late Saturday night. The kids are just waking up, and it’s time to rush out the door to get to church—hopefully before the announcements are over. Probably the last thing on your mind is dressing up for church . You just grab something halfway presentable and go. In today’s fast-paced world, taking time to actually dress up for church is far from many people’s minds. But taking time to dress up for church—at least in the biblical sense—is absolutely worth it. So what should you wear? Colossians 3:12 tells us: “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony…” (vv. 12–14) As valuable as it is to make Sundays special ...
