When I was growing up, we had to look our "Sunday best". Not for other people but for the Lord. And how has that changed since than. Instead of suite and tie it's now shirt, jeans,...t-shirts. Nothing looks different than any other day.

Just makes me think, is this culture.. people getting lazy in how they dress ... Disrespect for the Lord? What do you call it? I see how alot of churches say just come as you are and I get that. I'd rather see you in church with ragged clothes than not come at all but why not dress nice atleast once a week?

Little church in my town the people I see still wear their Sunday best.

This is something I've never quite understood. As a kid, growing up in church, we'd always wear nice dress clothes. Dad usually in a suit & tie, me in khakis and a nice polo or a button-up shirt. Sometimes a tie. It always drove me nuts growing up...made no sense to me why we were made to dress up. Now grown, my family and I don't dress up nearly as nice, but we do put on nicer clothes than our every-day clothes. Why should it matter? Clothes are on the outside - for PEOPLE to see. God knows what's in the heart and mind, and I personally believe He doesn't really care WHAT you wear, as long as it covers what it needs to.

It's not what you wear that matters, IMO. It's that you're there that matters.

They wear their camo In church In SC.

Depends entirely on the specific church.
Growing up catholic we dressed up for mass in the city. Mass on the rez or in the country was at least a button up shirt and no ripped or stained jeans.
Part of the come how you are started with Chuck Smith.

When I was younger we dressed for church. I even wore suit and tie when we started going to the church we attend now even though the dress was pretty casual, even the pastor. One year I renewed my drivers license after attending a funeral dressed in suit and tie. A number of people approached me and asked me if I was a lawyer. That following Sunday I looked like a homeless person walking in. True story.

From a Pastor's perspective, I would rather see the people there. Dress is purely a tradition / cultural thing. Think about the people of the Bible. how they lived and dressed. The early church was started by meeting at peoples houses and yards. The day they worshipped by Jewish custom was a work day. They in turn would have probably had on the same clothes they wore to work, not to mention the same ones they might would have had on for several days.. The church as the western world knows it have formulated our own Jesus that conforms to what we want instead of the Jesus of the Bible. I am of the opinion wear what you want, I don't care what clothes you have on, wardrobe will change with the culture, the need for Jesus will never change!

Growing up we dressed up and polished our shoes with kiwi shoe polish every Sunday morning
Don't have a suit and tie any longer but do have nice dress up clothes for church, funerals etc..
Slacks and a nice button up shirt
Jesus Christ is always depicted in every day wear of the time

I dress up for church.

church attendance has been sinking for decades, add a dress code now? Even fewer people would be coming

Yes!

I always wear clothes when I go to church.

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I dress up for Church. It's a respect thing similar to dressing up for someone's funeral. I don't judge someone who doesn't though, as stated I'd rather see them there not dressed up than them not there. But I do wonder if the more passive approach is also causing a more passive approach to Church attendance and religion in general.

I don’t think so. I grew up Methodist and church was very ritual and reverent. I figured we did it in fear. I missed the whole personal relationship with Christ and the presence of the Holy Spirit and it’s guidance.

On the west coast most people stopped dressing up for church sometime in the 1970's. People became aware that God is interested in what is on the inside of a person; not what is on the outside. It's been a long settled thing in this part of the Country that people don't give casual dress in church a second thought.

Fast forward to 2018. I started attending a "Russian" church, almost all of the people were either born there or where recently born here, and Russian is there first language. Interestingly, even the kids born here all grow up speaking Russian as their first language, and don't begin to learn English until they start school, they catch up really fast. I think it is a real asset for them.

The first Sunday I attended the church I put on my "wedding and funeral clothes". I had seen a lot of Slavic people (Russian/Ukrainian) on Sunday afternoons at the local grocery stores; they were always dressed in their Sunday best, women with head covering etc.. Much to my pleasant surprise I was the best dressed person in church, I felt much more at ease the following Sundays after I ditched my Sunday best.

The Russian church I attend is rather unique among Slavic churches, I think we are sort of viewed as "black sheep" in the local Slavic church community.
That's fine with me; the other churches are just a little jealous of the liberty that we have. These churches are primarily of Baptist or Pentecostal background (the charismatics are another story).

There are a lot of Slavic churches around me, almost all of them very conservative in their dress, many of them tend to be very "legalistic" on other things as well. The young people don't rebel against it as much as American youth did in the 1970's, however, they are starting to rethink some of these "traditions of man" in relation to their faith.

One rather curious thing that exists in Slavic culture in America is the "church car". It might be a BMW, Mercedes, etc., It is used to drive to church and other occasions when you want to show off. It's considered pretty humiliating for a Russian guy to show up to church driving his work van, in fact I know of instances where they will park it down the block and try to sneak into church un-noticed if for some reason they aren't able to drive their church car. Thankfully this does not happen in my church.

I always make sure to wear pants with no holes in them, and a shirt with no stains. Sometimes, if I'm feelin fancy, I'll wear a button up shirt.

Next time you go buy a house and the realtor shows up and in a Goodwill Special outfit...let me how you feel about that