Your Brother’s Keeper

I didn’t know I could still be shocked by people till yesterday. There’s a lady who says they are Christian and claims to belong to our denomination, but puts online, videos and photos that are extremely..not what we have learnt. Tight yoga pants, exercise bras, cleavage, close ups, squats. Let me share a photo to illustrate.

I don’t have a single non Adventist friend who posts any photos this naked. They don’t even post photos of themselves at the beach or in the pool! So to see a so-called SDA from my own congregation do it, is jarring. I do not aim to condemn women who walk around in public like this, but I do have to state very clearly that when Adam and Eve walked around in fig leaves, God gave them coats (robes). And modesty is enjoined also in the New Testament. And what will God give us in heaven? Long ROBES. Would she go to church like this? And our church in particular, has been taught that this nakedness is not godly.

So yes, I myself did once say something to the naked lady. I am my sister’s keeper. If I would want to be told when doing wrong so I can be a good influence, then I know God wants me to help my sisters to be a good influence too. But it was about a photo on a different medium to the public one. And it didn’t change anything.

Someone else then took it upon themselves to try upon seeing the public videos and photos and praises to God while in this virtually baked (for us) state. Can you imagine a Muslim sharing video after video in dressed like this? Imagine what her fellow Muslimahs would say! Or think. Or feel. So, in disappointment or shock, or dismay, someone from a different congregation but from our denomination wrote a message privately and part of it appeared on the public platform, shared by the naked lady.

And this is where I lost even more faith in people. I know the lady who wrote the message. If you worship at our congregation, you will all know the lady, because the naked lady shared some message in which the concerned sister stated that they visited our church sometime last year. And there’s only one other person in my world who would ever VOICE their concern. Not our church elders or deacons or deaconesses, but this sister who doesn’t worship with us.

So, this naked sister put up a caption to go with the private message received, which totally broke my heart. Again, I know the lady who wrote to her in concern, asking if she realised that she was naked and not conforming to modest standards she knew our congregation had been taught. I know her. This naked lady doesn’t know her except for having met during that visit, and from MY statuses. And you can be sure that I don’t share any hypocrisy on my statuses. What you see is real. And I’ve spent time with the concerned sister- together physically and texting weekly. I’ve seen another letter she sent. I know her heart. (I’ll share it in the narc family series) I know she truly wants God to be glorified by those who use His name. I know everything, her private struggles against sin.

So for the naked lady to call her “holy” (you can imagine the mocking tone that is meant and accuse her of “judging” (Love how it’s never about caring about one’s salvation. These people are always being judged.🙄) There was rambling about how she is a sinner so it’s ok for her to be naked in public (Huh!? Make that make sense!)

What I hated was that it was put up to defend what we all know is indecent for someone who has joined a congregation in which THIS below, was taught. And the worst thing is that an elder’s wife commented saying they know the person who sent the concerned message. No rebuke, no “Hmm, interesting points.” That in itself says a lot.

I don’t use that platform except to search for info for my children in the groups I’m in, or for AS info. So I hardly go on there. But that doesn’t matter. It’s still very public so this is my public response.

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The end.