Share the Body That God Gave Her With Everyone

This little number is guaranteed to evoke cat calls and drooling from every heterosexual male within a 3 block radius. Any women wearing this to church is even likely to cause her pastor to pause during his sermon and blurt out, "Darling you suuuuuure look good this morning!"

This "Christian Apparel" was created by the good folks over at "Witness at Home" and is available at many fine Christian retailers on the web.

Comments

[marcian]

You can't even see much of the shirt design in the photo, the lighting is so bad. The lighting accentuates HER, not the shirt.

[Marc]

Feelin' HOT HOT HOT!

[Adam]

To quote Paul, "... in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing." (1 Tim 9)

While Paul's epistle points out that this is not a new issue in the church, he also quite obviously stated what should be done; women in the church should dress modestly. Things like this remind me of how rare a person my girlfriend is, simply given that she dresses modestly and values maintaining her purity. I just wish more people would listen to what Paul said.

[shma]

I guess they think gullible "christians" (& I use that word loosley) will jump to buy this while it's on sale for $54 just because it says christian on it. Hey they have better sales at victoria's secret.

[merry]

Sorry, but I don't think that shirt is immodest. It's quite ugly to look at (the design is), but most people probably wouldn't blink an eye at a wide strapped tank top like that. Now if it was maybe a tube top or showing off her stomach, I might have a problem with it.

[MIMom]

I'm not sure when, but some where, some time, Christians decided that being covered and being modest were the same thing. They're not. As for this particular shirt, yes it is immodest, but it is not shocking to me, as we saw displays like that frequently at our former church.

[shma]

Merry that is the whole point - we have become so worldly & so use to imodest dress that we don't see anything wrong with clothes that attract men's attention. Also the picture to sell the shirt was very sexual in nature!! Probably 30 years ago that would have been considered soft porn - my how we have fallen.

[Mrs. Pilgrim]

Merry and MIMom,

Clue #1: the "look". If you take a look at the woman's expression, you can see that it's not one of piety. In fact, it's very similar to that of one Adriana Lima--a Victoria's Secret model. She's not known for having a "sweet" look to her. The pose is also much like.

Clue #2: the name. It's called "Edgy Silver Cross." What's the first thing people usually mean when they refer to something as "edgy"? (If you guessed "pushing the envelope," you get the prize!)

[Jerry]

I'm getting some for my wife. I'm more offended that someone is actually profiting from it. Jesus was given his cross for free.

[merry]

Lol. I think I'm from a COMPLETELY different generation from most of you guys commenting, (I'm a teenager). People have been wearing tank tops to church during the summer months for as long as I've been alive . . . call me misguided if you want, but the thought never even crossed my little mind that it was immodest . . .

It's the same with rock n roll . . . I thought it was good music to listen to if the lyrics were clean, until someone mentioned how "sexual" the music was. Again, the thought had NEVER even crossed my mind . . . I couldn't figure out why drums and bass guitar in church was so scandalous . . .

You'd just have to be from my generation to know what it's like.

Don't get me wrong, it's important to be modest, I just feel that covering myself from chin to ankles and completely obliterate my form is not always necessary . . . sometimes, but not always! ;O)

[Mrs. Pilgrim]

Hey, Merry, I'm probably a little over ten years your senior, so we're not TOO completely different. And I don't cover myself from "chin to ankles," either, unless it gets co-o-o-old out thar...(It's hard to show my figure in a parka, so oops, maybe I do occasionally "obliterate my form".)

I gather from your comments that you're a young lass? Well, don't fall for the feminist false dichotomy of "it's either string bikinis or burkas, girls!"

I would love to direct you to ladiesagainstfeminism.com. They have a wide variety of articles, both onsite and linked, which discuss the effect that various clothes can have, deliberate or not. The Rebelution recently did a "modesty survey" among men as to what makes them--um--uncomfortable in a girl's apparel. Have a look for yourself.

But those points aside, please have a look at my comment above again. My point was that, regardless of the actual coverage of the garment, it's the woman's expression and the name of the product which suggest the intended effect of the thing.

[Kevin]

Personally I don't find the shirt offensive....I find the picture to be distasteful and in bad form....using sex to sale
a Christian Item is horrible.The only thing I can find bad about the shirt is that its too form fitting but other then that I don't see anything else wrong....I've seen a lot worse at church I am sad to say. I think some Christian women need
to examine their clothes and ask themselves this question...
"If I wore this could this cause a man to lust?"
women have got to remember that a mans lust starts with his sight.

[fourpointer]

Todd Agnew said it best: "If Ephesians says to imitate Christ, why do you look so much like the world?"

I guess my question is, why would a woman even consider wearing something like this into the house of the LORD? I'm dorry, but yeah, this is going too far. If she wants to wear it at home, fine. But don't bring that into HIS house!

And besides, FIFTY THREE BUCKS?? FOR THAT??

[Cheryl]

First, for all of us that are "older" than Merry -

Paul instructed us (men & women) in Titus 2:2-8 "Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored. Likewise urge the young men to be sensible; in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified, sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us." NASB

We, the "older" have not done our job in instructing and setting the example for the younger. We will be held accountable.

Second, for Merry herself - The devil has tools that fall into three categories, (1) Lust of the eye, (2) Lust of the flesh, and (3) Pride of life. You, my dear young friend, could be guilty of being a tool in categories #1 and #2 in causing some young man to stumble. If you say that is not your problem, then you are guilty of #3. You do not have to dress like a grandma to be modest. Just ask yourself (as you and Jesus are in your closet picking out your wardrobe for the day) "is what I am putting on going to have a negative eternal affect on some young brother in Christ?" When you are truly a child of the King, then you will want to do everything in your power to protect that brother.

God bless you and send you His Holy Spirit to help guide you as you become the woman that God would want you to become.

[Aletheia]

Yes, I'm a woman, and yes, even for a woman I have an abnormally low sex drive. I can honestly say I've never experienced genuine sexual temptation or substantial lust even once. That said, I think Christian men aren't giving themselves enough credit - or taking enough responsibility. It may also have something to do with societal attitudes toward sex - either you're "liberated" or you're a "prude," either you're "pure" or you're "wicked." Each of these extremes makes sex a focus somehow. A non-Christian who doesn't care what her friends do but chooses to save sex for marriage because she wants her first time to be special probably feels like a bit of a freak - and so might a Christian who has committed a sexual sin. The same wouldn't necessarily be true for a worldly person who dressed a little differently or a Christian who cheated on his taxes. Maybe the emphasis we put on sex is what's driving men wild - not women in t-shirts. In some parts of the world, both men and women regularly wear little to no clothing. Are individuals in these cultures going about in a constant state of sexual arousal? No. They've seen bodies, they see bodies all the time. As for the Victorian Era, when proper women wouldn't even say the word "legs" let alone let a man see that they HAD legs, a woman could drive a man to distraction just by letting him see a little bit of her ankle.

Am I suggesting we all go around naked? Not in this society. What I am suggesting is that some of us lighten up, and that some men get to know women as human beings instead of fearing them as temptation waiting to happen.

[Salome]

In absolute, whole-hearted agreement with Aletheia!

[A Slave Of Christ]

Aletheia and Salome. I think that in your attempt to justify women wearing what women think they have a "right" to wear, you neglect to understand that men aren't driven to women because people say that "Sex is evil" men are driven to fulfill their sexual desires with any nice looking women because men are evil.... You may not agree. Doesn't change the truth. Sex is something much more powerful than you seem to give it credit for. The bible does specifically say that sexual sin is unlike all other sins, in that "The one who does such things sins against their own body".

Sex is much more than just a physical activity....It's a deep intimate, powerful thing that affects body, soul, and mind. It affects people spiritually, physically, emotionally, and mentally. When something that touches on so much of the inner most parts of a human being, is misused, it becomes more than just some little thing that everybody takes too seriously. It becomes a dangerous dangerous weapon in the hands of Satan. And He knows that...That's why, as you said, "In some parts of the world, both men and women regularly wear little to no clothing. "
You also stated that men should get to know women as people and not as a temptation that they should avoid. Just as men don't understand the way a woman thinks, women don't understand that men don't understand that the words "woman" and "sex" are two different things. They go hand in hand. If I say drive, you think of a vehicle. If I say swimming, you think of water. If I say woman, men think of sex. It's not something that they can help really. Is it because they're all sexaholics? No. Is it because they live in a world filled with near pornographic images on every billboard, television show, or commercial? Yes....Is it because women like to dress in a way that tempts men so much that any godly man would much rather sit at home and stare at a wall then walk into a mall because of all of the scantily clad women he would see? Yes. Do godly men run from sensuality because they love God? Yes. Do godly men say, "Oh it's okay, it's not that bad, I'll just not lust after them...." No. Because they know they can't do that. They know that most of the time, anytime they even glance at anything other than a woman's face, they almost immediately think some perverted thought. So they look away, to keep from doing that.

Ever wondered why you want to dress in a way that shows off your body? Satan. It's a cultural thing.

If only we could understand that so much in our lives are dictated by our culture. We all think we're being independent, but we neglect the fact that we live in a nation that prides itself on "independence".

Men are visually stimulated. That's the way God made them. That's why women look the way they do. For their husbands. Not for the world.