Two things: your husband is being a jerk. Also, how do YOU feel about wearing pants and makeup? If you agree with the idea that women shouldn't then by all means, attend this church. However, if you find those rules to be stifling then find another church that fits in better with your values.

Pentecostals adhere to traditions from the "holiness movement" which preceded the "pentecostal movement", and their views on women's adorning is one such traditional aspect in their denomination. They attempt to teach their view against women in pants with Deuteronomy 22:5 from under Moses' Law. They never show this verse within its proper context. It does not refer to "cultural" cross-dressing at all, but it does refer to "cultic" cross-dressing--a practice of the Canaanites in worship of their pagan god, mainly to get their god to turn the battle around for them. It refers to transvestite warrior dressing. We cannot build a NT doctrine out of this verse. Why isolate verse 5? Read the other verses surrounding this one. Why not take out verse 15? "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts as of woolen and linen mixed together." To be bound to one verse of the Law makes you a debtor to keep the whole law. Historically speakiong, pants were an invention of the Medes and Persians in the 4th century, BC and were worn by both sexes. The ancient people of the Bible did not wear pants. The basic garment worn by both sexes was the "kethoneth," in the NT Greek, the "chiton," and known as the "tunica" to the Romans. It resembled, in OUR CULTURE, a "shift" styled dress. "Masculine" and "feminine" in clothing styles is a matter of CULTURE, and the Pentecostals are making the mistake of trying to turn a CULTURAL CONCEPT into a Biblical mandate. It was in 1340 that pants became a male garment, and only in Europe while under the rule of the Catholic Church, which had a major hand in the creation of the concept of pants on men and dresses on women. Our European forefathers brought this concept over here, but the first women's movement destroyed it. I don't have all the history on make-up researched, yet, but I have read of the discovery of rouge pots in excavations in Israel, and I am sure women in Bible times did wear it some. Why don't you wear it around home for your husband? I suggest you wear your pants, as well.