🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Since I brought up eating and dress codes...do you have one for yourself when it comes to church?

[TerryP]

Are you the "gotta wear a tie." Or a consistent "Sunday go to meetin's" thing?

OR, as I prefer...doesn't matter one bit. Put your suit and tie on if you wish ... stop by the morning service on Sunday on your way to the beach.

It really doesn't matter to me, in the least.

Thoughts? Or, are you just a sinful reprobate? (I know, it's a Purl of a chance to call someone out...but, don't want to Jam up anyone.)

 

[Bamabww]

No suit and tie except fo maybe a funeral. Church apparel, on Sunday morning, will be dress pants and a shirt with a collar. Socks optional unless it's winter.
Sunday evening much more casual. Blue jeans, sweat shirt in the cooler weather or tee shirt. Socks, same as above.

 

[TerryP]

will be dress pants and a shirt with a collar.

Does everyone dress "business casual," like this?

- Different subject ... didn't really think there were that many Sunday night services anymore. Over the last 25 years I've attended three (the last more than one campus) and the first (started '96 or so) have had home groups.

 

[bama alum]

I'm a 29th year teacher; I still wear a tie to work almost every day.

 

[Bamabww]

Does everyone dress "business casual," like this?

No. Very few in fact. I teach the adult class and ‘dress up’ for some reason but it’s not required.

We would be just as well to dismiss our Evening services, and I’m in favor of it. Our morning service runs probably 40 to 50 on a good Sunday. 10 to 12 on any evening service. We don’t have a mid week service.

 

[TerryP]

I teach the adult class and ‘dress up’ for some reason but it’s not required.

That puts it in a different context. A visiting family, first impressions, and all.

 

[TerryP]

I'm a 29th year teacher; I still wear a tie to work almost every day.

More power to ya! Do the others?

 

[bama alum]

More power to ya! Do the others?

Uhhhm, no

 

[TerryP]

Uhhhm, no

Age differences?

 

[rick4bama]

No suit and tie except fo maybe a funeral. Church apparel, on Sunday morning, will be dress pants and a shirt with a collar. Socks optional unless it's winter.
Sunday evening much more casual. Blue jeans, sweat shirt in the cooler weather or tee shirt. Socks, same as above.

I don't wear a suit at all. Our church is more casual. Now funeral it kind of a hit and miss here. I had a cousin that pass away a few months ago. Most of her kids were bare foot during the viewing at the funeral home. Now my brother was more casual that dress up type.

 

[sean]

I don't wear a suit at all. Our church is more casual. Now funeral it kind of a hit and miss here. I had a cousin that pass away a few months ago. Most of her kids were bare foot during the viewing at the funeral home. Now my brother was more casual that dress up type.

A funeral is one place where I wear a suit. I went to the funeral of a friend's dad one time. There was a girl there that wore really short cutoff shorts, flip-flops, and a baggy t-shirt that was barely hanging on. And it was the type of girl that you did NOT want to see wearing something like that.

A job interview is another place where I'll wear a suit. I don't care what the job is. And I know it's said to dress 1 level above the job attire. But I've always worn a suit to any interview I've even been to. I wore one when I was interviewing for another position in a company I already worked for. I even wore one where the job was driving a forklift in a warehouse.

I don't like wearing suits. And I hate having to put on a tie. But for those 2 situations, I deal with it.

 

[24and7]

Decorum starts at home.. that's where it's dying the most.. most families don't even sit at the dinner table very much anymore.. they sit and watch tv or play with their phones, during meals.. and they dress like something the cat drug up,..Try to make these kids sit at a table, dress up and turn off the tv/iphone is like torturing them.. So there is not much hope for it outside the home..

 

[TerryP]

What y'all think? Baptist dress up more than any other denomination? And, the non-dom churches have the most relaxed attire?

7th Day ... they might give the Baptist a run for their money. Jehovah's Witnesses another.

 

[Krimson]

For me it depends on the church. Usually slacks and a collared shirt but here in key west is more casual so it's usually shorts and a polo.

 

[TerryP]

For me it depends on the church. Usually slacks and a collared shirt but here in key west is more casual so it's usually shorts and a polo.

That's one of the things I like about the main campus (same W Ashley to a degree.) The main, in Mt. Pleasant, is on the way to Isle of Palms. W. Ashley on the way to Folly Beach. I'd bet half of the crowd will be at, or are headed to, either Folly or Sullivan's Island in that Sunday morning W. Ashley group.

Mt. P? A wife dressed in a T-shirt, shorts, and sandals with a bikini underneath standing next to her husband in shorts and a golf shirt. One is headed to the beach with the kids, the other the links. They are with their friends...shirt and tie guy there. But he'll change into a polo for the round after church.

Of the two campuses in Summerville? Your golfers and your Sunday 'eatin' out crowd.' I was in McClellanville in the fall two years ago: a group of hunters dressed, ready to go.

All of them; so, so different in attire. Same ol' folks, though.

 

[bama alum]

Age differences?

No, not in some cases

 

[alabama mike]

I usually wear a sport coat on Sunday morning, especially if I am on the platform leading the music. Tie comes out for special services, like Easter tomorrow. At work I only wear a tie for special events. I do not wear jeans to church at all, nothing wrong with it other than the fact that I don’t wear jeans very much anywhere, they just aren’t comfortable to me. Being in a leadership position, I dress up a little more than the new normal. Just preference for me.

The Holiness churches are the ones that still dress up for every service. Coat and tie and dresses on the females. Some of the ladies I have seen near my home in Ohio still wear the fluffy hairdos.

IMO, I think it comes down to the expectations of the particular church and the members of the congregation. I do think when we enter into worship that it should look and feel different than going to Wal Mart. Again, preference not legalistic for me.

My wife has played the piano at church since she was 12, she is now 65. She wear a dress or skirt for every service. Do you realize how difficult it is to find a dress or skirt that is appropriate? No issue with me wearing nice pants but she will not do it based on how she was raised.

 

[TerryP]

I do think when we enter into worship that it should look and feel different than going to Wal Mart. Again, preference not legalistic for me.

Is a church more appealing to those who need to be there, those who church groups feel is the sect they are witness to ...

Do those people feel more comfortable attending a church who has more of a "Walmart" feel versus one who has the feel of "Our Lady of Sorrows?"

I'm glad you brought up your wife and her playing the piano. It's part of my opinion, my beliefs, if you will.

Imagine a family of four getting in their car for a 30 minute ride to church. What's on the radio? Is it organ and piano music, or something contemporary? I think we'll agree the vast majority fall into the latter group, right?

It's my opinion, reaching the "lost" is a lot easier when it's also easier to come in the door. If the same genre of music is meeting folks as they enter churches and meetings, are they more conformtable listening to the message? I believe so.

The same opinion applies to environment, or "dress code" if you will. Which will make those the church is ministering to more comfortable?

 

[PurlJam]

Grew up Baptist so Fried Chicken is a no brainer....oh wait, you mean dress code for church. I guess now, since I'm non denominational, the sky's the limit on dress code.

 

[alabama mike]

Is a church more appealing to those who need to be there, those who church groups feel is the sect they are witness to ...

Do those people feel more comfortable attending a church who has more of a "Walmart" feel versus one who has the feel of "Our Lady of Sorrows?"

I'm glad you brought up your wife and her playing the piano. It's part of my opinion, my beliefs, if you will.

Imagine a family of four getting in their car for a 30 minute ride to church. What's on the radio? Is it organ and piano music, or something contemporary? I think we'll agree the vast majority fall into the latter group, right?

It's my opinion, reaching the "lost" is a lot easier when it's also easier to come in the door. If the same genre of music is meeting folks as they enter churches and meetings, are they more conformtable listening to the message? I believe so.

The same opinion applies to environment, or "dress code" if you will. Which will make those the church is ministering to more comfortable?

I think it all depends on the type of church a person(s) prefers. As long as it is sound doctrine wise, I have no issue in what a person wears.