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Women’s brains work so differently compared to men’s. Some of their biggest stumbling blocks were in seeing cleavage of any kind, midriff showing, short shorts, and more. Finally, someone had come along and TOLD me what causes men to stumble (from the men’s own mouths). They surveyed dozens of men within the church and asked THEM what made them stumble when it came to how the women in the church were dressing. This helped open up my eyes to what men really think about clothing and modesty. The next ten minutes were spent discussing what is appropriate dress and what isn’t. He asked all the men to leave after he had given his sermon on modesty. I heard a college pastor talking openly with the women one Sunday morning. I could finally see some guidelines forming in my head about modesty. When I started to see that a big part of our responsibility with modesty is in our relationship to our brother’s in Christ, things started to click. We should serve those around us, and that means serving our brothers. Maybe we don’t feel convicted that our dress is immodest and we can live in Christian liberty, but we should not live in the flesh.
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We are also called to serve one another in love. “Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.” 1 Corinthians 8:13 If we have it in our power to help weaker Christians in their walk with the Lord and not to stumble into sin then we need to be doing that. 1 Corinthians 8: 9-13 teaches that we are to not be a stumbling block to those around us. That is, until I started studying about what modesty means in relation to the men around me. It seemed like such a hard concept to nail down. I didn’t wear mini skirts or walk around with see-through clothing or anything. But it still didn’t seem like that big a deal to me.īecause really, the term “modesty” seems so ambiguous.
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It wasn’t until I started hearing solid teaching from Scripture on modesty that the Lord started to change my heart and mind. I think that a large amount of the women in the modern church are this way too, not blatantly ignoring God’s teaching on this subject, but rather ignorant to what it Scripture really teaches about modesty. I just was ignorant to what the Bible had to say about modesty. I wasn’t taught about it in church or youth group, and I wasn’t actively ignoring the Bible’s teaching on it.
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In middle school and high school I didn’t really hear a word about modesty. The idea of modesty didn’t really click for me right away. Now I would like to shift the attention a little bit away from the heart of modesty to the practical application of modesty. In our A Modest Heart series, we have been reviewing what the Bible has to say about modesty and what is really at the HEART of modesty.