A few Sundays ago, we got up and put on our Amazon purchased Sunday Best… old fashioned style. The kids looked daring! My husband, Jordan, was decked out in his 3-piece suit and I put on the next best thing to “Little House on the Prairie” and off to church we went.
Why go through all the trouble of dressing up for old fashioned Sunday when we could easily go to church dressed in our normal Sunday best?
We do it for one reason and one reason only… memory making opportunities! Not for any other reason but that! We make a HUGE deal of it… for memories sake! To keep a tradition going strong for the sake of my children.
Growing up I have very few things that I can actually remember. I’m not sure why my memory is fleeting and why I can’t recall all the things that I did growing up. One thing I do remember though like it was yesterday… dressing up on Old Fashioned Sunday.
I can’t tell you when the tradition started or where, all I can tell you is of all the special things my childhood held, this was the thing that stuck out to me the most. The food following would probably be the next best thing to the actual dressing up itself.
One of my favorite themes of most Old Fashioned Sunday’s… that Old Time Religion! Not this new age stuff that don’t have a foot to stand on. Give me those red-back hymnal songs and that powerful preaching that ushers in the Holy Spirit. Don’t give me the colored lights, band blaring music or the skinny jeans preacher. The old stuff is good enough for me!
If that’s your cup of tea, you can keep it! Serve me up that KJV preaching, not that “love everybody” and “self-love” hogwash that will send many people to hell because opting for “itching ear preaching” is an option. I want that convicting message! That message that reframes my thinking! That preaching that causes me to take inventory of my life.
That’s what I want to raise my babies in! I want my babies to fear God, not man! I want my babies to serve God, more than man! I want my babies raised the old fashioned way! It’s good enough for me! 💗
Some things are preference and some things are principle! This is one of those things! Old Fashioned attire is preference, but the Word of God and how it is preached is principle!
“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”
2 Timothy 4:1-5 KJV
Friends, some things are done for the sake of memories, but some things should be done in order! The Word of God should be presented as whole and complete no matter what season of life you’re in. I’m not sharing this because I am educated. I’m not sharing this because I am perfect. I am sharing this because I have fallen into the trap of “lazy” Christianity.
I’ve been in preaching where the full gospel wasn’t presented. I have sung songs in a building that have no scriptural context, just a good beat. I have fallen into the mindset that church on the couch was just as good as church on a pew. We have to take time daily to examine ourselves friends. The Christian life is a battleground. It’s not a life to walk through vicariously with a “serve me” mentality. We must be sober minded as the KJV puts it. Sober minded means to be SOLID, SUSTAINABLE, or immovable. We have to STAND on the Word of God and ALL of its truth, not just what benefits us in the season we are in. I’m talking to myself just as much as I am you!
Let’s be accountable to each other as sisters and brothers in Christ. None of us are exempt from sin and the things of life that easily entangle us. Let’s commit to a more Christ-centered life! In the end, the memories are wonderful, but where you spend eternity matters more than anything in this world.
Love in Christ,
Kimberly Perkins
The Modest Momma
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