Carlos Whittaker has a great post that kind of talks about his internal dialogue on the importance of ministers dressing nice. This conversation came up in our worship team meeting the other day when we talked about having the speaker and worship leaders potentially dress more trendy.
I don't necessarily want them to look trendy, just nice. What's great about just saying "look nice" is that it means so many different things to different people. Looking nice to me means that I would wear trendy looking jeans, my cool skechers brown shoes that I got for Christmas, and a long-sleeved, button-down, fairly tight-fitting shirt that I would wear untucked. To our worship leader it means that he would wear a nice button-down shirt tucked in to fancy slacks with shiny shoes. To our pastor it means that he would wear a sweater with slacks and shiny shoes. To someone else it might mean that they wear a trendy t-shirt with a trendy jacket over it, gel their hair extra, and wear jeans with a couple of holes and paint on them.
The problem with trying to have everyone dress trendy is that it isn't necessarily who they are. Some people would look ridiculous in certain outfits, even though they might be considered nice in some circles.
An offshoot of the conversation that we had the other day was talking about the vehicle that our pastor drives. Our church is in an extremely affluent area on the south side of Atlanta. Most of our families drive nice minivans, large SUV's, or luxury sedans. Our pastor drives an old truck. It doesn't really fit in with our community, and it's not even really who he is, so I'm pushing him to get something nicer.
Just some thoughts. I can't really say much about vehicles since I drive a 1993 Saturn SL2 that has over 161,000 miles on it. But it still runs. JM
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