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My name is Dale Partridge.

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Alright we're going to be talking about dress or clothing in the church.

In the west we have been dressing down for several decades.

No culture has infiltrated society and the vast majority of Christians have followed suit.

No pun intended.

Some men, you know on a Sunday I've seen wear sandals and tank tops to church in the

summer and women wearing mini skirts or even leggings as pants to church.

And this trend from formal attire to casual attire really began in the 1960s as a reaction

to the kind of stalwart view of the Orthodox Christian church.

And in an effort to attract more visitors, you know the church began stripping anything

quote, churchy from the gathering and replaced it with something less historical and more

consistent with the modern culture.

Think about hymns were replaced with rock bands and the pulpit was replaced with the

conference stage.

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