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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t care one bit.  No one needs to be dressed up to attend church.[/quote]

Why did everyone dress up for church in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s? You don't think that looked much nicer? You don't admire a random good looking family wearing their Sunday best if you see one on a Sunday afternoon? Come on, we all do.

This erosion of effort and appearance and coming to church in casual clothes seems to be a relatively new phenomenon.[/quote]

I can say this, my current church has a much higher attendance of teens since they can dress comfortably.  Just because things were done in the past doesn’t make a change bad.  There will always be those who dress up. Mind your own business.[/quote]

Back in the 90s my parents used to fight my brother every weekend to get him dressed for church.  It made everything super stressful and definitely didn't turn my brother into a church goer.[/quote]

I'd bet anything the children who are allowed to come to church like slobs are exponentially more likely to cease church attendance when they can (age 18, college, moving out of the house). If their parents never took the church seriously, why would they? It doesn't take money to be tidy, shave, brush hair, put on a collared shirt, tuck your shirt in, and iron your slacks.[/quote]

My casual-dress church has a community of involved tweens, teens, and young adults. They are there for each other and the service, not to put on a fashion show. It is such a joy seeing my young teen light up when she sees her friends at service, and to see them all voluntarily going to the extra activities or volunteering with the littler kids. The church community is a huge part of our lives - we're usually there most of the weekend, because of after-service activities- and I do not care at all what anybody wears. [/quote]

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