When a bride looks like a whore...

Yesterday I was made aware of a local church over on the eastside that had a group entitled "no effin clue" (first group listed on their website). After I got over my initial shock that a church would even consider that name but that they would go a step further and put it on their website and promote it, I started to think about what is at the heart of an organization that does things like this. The only conclusion is that she wants to look like the prostitute instead of the pure undefiled bride of Christ.

My mind was drawn to the title of the church that God uses time and time again, the bride of Christ. A bride is THE woman of her husband. She is to outwardly show her inner beauty (1 Peter 3:1-6). She is submit to her husband. She is to be beautiful to her husband. She is not to look like the the unmarried teenage whore that is found on the front pages of so many current magazines and Internet sites bearing for all the world to see. There is a reason why the bride wears white on her wedding day. It is to represent her purity. Purity in her physical body. Purity in her mouth. Purity in her thoughts. Purity in her actions. A setting apart of herself for her husband the groom. At that time, when she walks down the isle, everyone in the room stands out of respect for her. Most see the dress and respect what it stands for.

If the bride where to come in with a cigarette hanging out of mouth, a beer bottle in one hand, and dressed like a prostitute (letting the audience see what should be reserved for her husband only), the audience might wonder who she is. They definitely are not going to immediately stand because after all standing is reserved for the bride. If this woman got to the end of the isle and the pastor said do you take this man to be you husband and she said, "no effine clue", there is a good chance that the groom might just walk out due to sheer embarrassment.

The church is the bride of Christ. We are to honor Him as our husband. He came to save us unto Himself and all that He stands for not free us up to look as whorish as we can. May the bride of Christ bring honor to Her Husband through all she says and does (doctrine an practice).

Soli Deo Gloria





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