Teachers/Workers Guidelines

[caramelcreme777]

(04-05-2011 12:29 PM)amyrose5 Wrote:  [quote='pastor's wife' pid='13908' dateline='1302024155']
They hauled us to an ACSI convention one year where the hotel had a pool. A bunch of us decided to go swimming. Well, I had a two piece suit. Not really a bikini, more of a tankini before they invented that word. Well, all heck broke loose over my immodest suit--you could see maybe 3/4 of an inch of my stomach, maybe not even that depending on movement.

Hey - at least you didn't have to cover up your suit with a dark t-shirt and knee length shorts.....
It's funny, last summer alot of the teens from our church went swimming in the youth pastor's pool one Wednesday night after youth group (in their swimsuits!!!) As I stood there supervising, all I could think of was how horrified my mother would be that they were "mixed bathing"!!!!

I think the no "mixed bathing" standard is a southern IFB thing.

[supernova8610]

(04-05-2011 12:56 PM)caramelcreme777 Wrote:  

(04-05-2011 12:29 PM)amyrose5 Wrote:  [quote='pastor's wife' pid='13908' dateline='1302024155']
They hauled us to an ACSI convention one year where the hotel had a pool. A bunch of us decided to go swimming. Well, I had a two piece suit. Not really a bikini, more of a tankini before they invented that word. Well, all heck broke loose over my immodest suit--you could see maybe 3/4 of an inch of my stomach, maybe not even that depending on movement.

Hey - at least you didn't have to cover up your suit with a dark t-shirt and knee length shorts.....
It's funny, last summer alot of the teens from our church went swimming in the youth pastor's pool one Wednesday night after youth group (in their swimsuits!!!) As I stood there supervising, all I could think of was how horrified my mother would be that they were "mixed bathing"!!!!

I think the no "mixed bathing" standard is a southern IFB thing.

They had the no mixed bathing at my exIFB church, and I'm in NorCal.

[Smith]

(04-05-2011 10:21 AM)caramelcreme777 Wrote:  

(04-05-2011 06:49 AM)Smith Wrote:  Bet his wife was the kind of woman who would lick a kleenex and wipe her kids face....ech.

???? Is this a pet peeve of yours???

Well, it's certainly not that close to me to consider it a "pet", nor is it offensive enough to consider to a "peeve"....it just gives me the "willys"

[Smith]

"mixed bathing".....I have visions of an old silent movie where the women are running around like a rodent after taking a hit of speed being chased by and equally jacked up man waiving a bible.

Confession time: while stationed at Plattsburgh, NY, the Canadians would come down from Quebec during their vacations (they closed the country for two weeks) and the females would chang into their swim suits .....on the beach....I would be doing sprints on my bike and make it my habit to drop in at the beach around noonish to site-see. I would see some people from church there and they would be hiding their kids faces while all this was happening...One of the men saw me sitting on my Peugot, sunglasses, helmet, big grin....I just waived he was a deacon....I had leverage ...it was awesome.....ah yeah, good times...good times.

[Ex-IFBer]

I never worked at an IFB church but my dad did. He was a Christian school administrator. We moved around (different states) a lot and it always amazed me how in one church, "this was a sin" and in another church "this was a sin", so it was like, ok, now we have to abide by a whole other set of rules according to this or that particular church.
One church actually allowed certain Steve Green and Sandi Patti songs to be sung in church but were wholly against pants on girls and "mixed bathing". But another church allowed pants (for certain activities) but were crazy strict on the music scene. Every where we went, the rules changed...that was really fun for a teenager to digest let me tell you!!
I will never do that to my kids. If it's ok in my home, than it's ok outside of my home.
My husband is a pastor and our church had a Halloween party for the community. My kids went as "Harry Potter" and a "witch". We laughed at the irony of it. I figured if I don't have a problem with it, then I will NOT make them do something different for the sake of apperances or for the church. If it's ok in my home, it's ok in church or outside my home and people are just gonna have to deal with that!!

[pastor's wife]

(04-10-2011 04:39 PM)Ex-IFBer Wrote:  If it's ok in my home, it's ok in church or outside my home and people are just gonna have to deal with that!!

It's so freeing to be authentic and genuine and loving, to believe the best of other Christians (instead of thinking, "She dressed her kid like a witch. They must be secret Satan-worshippers!") It's so wonderful to not have to put on a mask in order to impress church folks but just to be real.

[Ex-IFBer]

Yes!!! "Believe the best in other Christians"...what a concept!!!