Friday, October 10, 2008

The Clothes We Wear


So today my pastor emailed me saying that, unfortunately, I can no longer wear jeans and sneakers when I preside during worship service. A presider basically does the opening prayer, makes announcements, reads the Scripture passage for the day, and then invites the pastor up to speak.

The presider also stands behind a big solid wood podium. So the only time people can see the lower half of my body is when I walk up on stage and walk off - a total of about 9 seconds or about 1.5% of the time I am on stage.

Nevertheless I've been asked to wear business casual.
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If I wore business casual at Mark Driscoll's church they'd probably tell me to wear jeans and sneakers - you know, how the pastor dresses when he preaches.
* The picture above is a screenshot of Mark Driscoll preaching to other preachers