Grendon Bailie, a 13-year-old student at Truman Middle School in Tacoma, Washington, was sent home Friday for wearing inappropriate clothing. His school, which has a strict dress code, relaxed the code for one day to allow the students to show their support of the Seattle Seahawks NFL football team. The students were told they could either wear their school uniforms or wear Seahawks colors or apparel.
It turns out that Grendon prefers to root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, so he wore a Steelers jersey. Grendon said, “Not everyone is a Seahawks fan—and if they got to wear their team stuff then I should too.” School administrators deemed this to be inappropriate, so they sent him home.
It doesn’t seem fair, does it? I remember reading about a similar incident. This dress code violation took place at a wedding. The poor guest was speechless when he was physically thrown out of the wedding banquet simply because he wasn’t dressed properly. (You can read about this incident in Matt.22:1-14).
It violates the world’s sense of fairness when Christians insist that Jesus is the only way to be saved. You can almost hear them say—“Not everybody is a Jesus fan—and if they get to believe their Jesus stuff then I should get to believe my stuff too.”
John 14:6—“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John the apostle saw a vision of a multitude of people from all nations, wearing white robes and worshiping God in heaven. These people are described as those who “…have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” (Rev.7:14).
I guess it does matter what you wear after all.
