Josh wrote:Okay. What are you trying to say?
I'm not sure I can say it right... I really struggle to say anything without relating it to some experience or reality. I grew up in front of a TV and only read a couple books before my early 20's, with parents not interested in talking about much anything deeper than what is only on the surface...
So, I ask for your forgiveness and patience in trying to explain how social status and a sectarian spirit of caterogizing people or groups can be part of what has become of the evolution of plain dress. I don't intend to sound resentful or even talk bad about others, but rather am trying to show that not following exacting church dress standards can be viewed as disobedience and individualism from one view because of experience, but could be viewed as social status and sectarianism from another because of experience.
It's not that one experience is better than the other but rather that we as Christians should be using our experiences (as I believe God intended) to compliment one another. Too often we use them to seperate one another..
Like I've said it is like the very things keeping Anabaptism what it is, is what is keeping it from what it was... Hope that makes sense...