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Forum: Theological Expressions
Re:

On Christian dressing ? (Wahshing)
Re:

How about African women? (Noelle)
Date: 2001, Sep 26
From: Emmanuel Emmanuel_RC

Dear Noelle, Thanx for making this good point that I hath left out! This is a cross-cultural issue on dressing, what I emphasised earlier on is on western and some region like Singapore, talking on Africans, thats interesting, you must see on which part of the Africa Continent, the South Africa is greatly influenced by the British and Spanish culture, so therefore the natives there do dress properly for Mass and Services, I have been to Cape Town last year. :o) While for the rural areas, they do dress in their own sense of "Proper Dress code" in their own custom. You see what I am saying is that, not every part of the world is western influenced, believers who are still stuck with their races' or tribes' traditions will continue to honor and worship God in their comfortable manner. God knows every human-beings and understand how humans live in their own tradition, this is what we called a Cultural Exchange as an experience to discover fellow christians in other parts of the world in their worship style. :o) I have been to churches in Thailand, Mymmar and Taiwan. The interesting part is where I see Christians using Joss-sticks to worship God in churches, some older people may even offer some food at the altar whereby most of us won't agree to this kind of practise.The reason behind these scenes is that most of these uneducated and not western influenced people are used in their former way of praying to a God and especially the old folks who are very stubborn when told of this is not the Christian way to worship, you may find that certain quoting from scriptures may not agree with their actions, their hearts and faith are really genuine in God the Trinity, they only listen to bible preachings daily in churches and aren't educated like us to read and interpret scriptures easily, what I can say here is the Faith of theirs and works of faith in love and compassion for others which God is actually looking in, not their unintentional actions like offering food or praying in their custom styles, this is where we learn to respect and share with others in this world. In His Vision, Emmanuel