Dressing to Attract

By: American Decency Staff

July 6, 2012

I saw a powerful email from a ministry called:  “Raising Godly Children”.   I commend it to you.

[Editor’s note:  a correction at the bottom regarding yesterday’s email.]

Every day they cover one concerning and important subject or another.

One of today’s topics was “Dressing to Attract.”

 

It has to do with the subject of modesty.  We are hit from so many sides on this front.

One lady from northern Michigan sent me advertisements she received in the mail that were clearly indecent and asked me for help.  I returned the ads so she could take them to her local post office and told her to go to the post office and ask for an SOA form (Sexually oriented advertisement).  Fill out the form and follow the post office’s direction.  The ads will be sent back to the company with the form notifying them not to send this material to the addressee.  If they do again, they are liable.

Another called from New Jersey expressing concern regarding Cosmopolitan at the checkout counter (along with other indecent/pornographic magazines.)

Sadly, sometimes there are those who dress immodestly in the church.

As Christian author Nancy Leigh DeMoss writes:  It’s important to remember that modesty is not first an issue of what we wear.  It’s essentially a heart issue.  If our hearts are right with God, if we’re walking in purity and humility before Him – the inevitable result will be a modest external appearance.

A heart of modesty affects every aspect of a woman’s life – not just the way she looks, but her attitudes and the way she talk and acts, as well.

For a more in depth look at this issue, I highly recommend the insightful booklet and CD “Does God Really Care What I Wear?” by Nancy Leigh DeMoss.  To order these helpful resources go to americandecency.org and click on our store.  That’s http://secure4.afo.net/ada/store2/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=28

In closing, I don’t want to neglect to share with you the excellent indepth article from “Raising Godly Children”.

Quoting:

Modesty is a topic I don’t like to talk about.  The reason being?  It’s akward.  It’s akward because there are such conflicting views on the issue and because I’m extremely fearful of saying the wrong thing and hurting people’s feelings or having them feel judged.

But, this post,  got me thinking.

In many ways the word ‘modesty’ ranks with the likes of ancient concepts like, oh, chivalry.  I mean, it’s 2011.  Does any one REALLY worry about modesty anymore? We’ve been liberated.  It’s not about what we wear.  As women, we can do what we want, be who we want, and parade around in any attire we so choose.  We need not have any regard for how it makes other people feel. That’s their problem, it’s about US.  We faught for this ‘freedom’, dangitt.

Hmph.

And yet, we’re cheering on lingerie football and cities are hosting Slut Walks.   Celebrities strut in their skivies and it’s on the news at noon.  We’re more sexually objectified and opressed than we’ve ever been, all in the name of liberty.  And modesty – where is modesty?   Many women want to know.  It’s a topic of deep concern and contemplation.  What are we to do with culture when it comes to what we wear? …

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http://www.raisinggodlychildren.org/2011/12/dressing-to-attract.html

 

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CORRECTION: Yesterday I reported on an event we held here at our ministry headquarters on the Fourth of July which included a reading of the Declaration of Independence.  At this event a dear friend of this ministry, 88 year old Max Jordan, told how 68 years ago that day – July 4 – he landed on Omaha Beach – not as part of the D-Day invasion, but as a secondary invasion of troops.   This began months of fighting on the European continent for Max as a 20 year old soldier in battles such as the Battle of the Bulge.   With tears in his eyes, he told us of the massive cemetery he saw already created from the D-Day invasion 28 days earlier.   This sweet man of God endured horrors as a 20 year old young man which hopefully most of us will never know – all in service of this great country and protection of our freedoms.

In yesterday’s email, as I mentioned Max’s landing with other troops on Omaha Beach on July 4 – a month after D-Day, I also wrote of the great sacrifices of D-Day itself, and unfortunately the wording made it sound as if I was stating D-Day occurred on July 4 instead of June 6.  I was referring to two separate events – Max’s account of his going ashore on July 4, as well as D-Day itself.  I apologize for the confusion.

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