depends on the person you're asking. no lie i think the majority of people go because they honestly believe in what they're doing whether it's christian jewish muslim buddhist etc... but then there are the few hypocrites that unfortunately make it known that they have other puposes to be seen in a religious building. but for the most part i think people go because they want to worship or get stronger in their religion

I don't go to church anymore for that reason. Not a fashion show but more like a facade that the people attending are not a bunch of fornicating hippocrites. From my experience, church is a joke.

I go to church not only to worship God(as we should be doing every second of our existence, not just in church) but to meet together with my brethren in the Lord(other born-again Christians) and study the Holy Scriptures, sing praise unto God, and hear the preaching and teaching of His holy Word and be spiritually strengthened. Thank you and may the Lord bless you. :) -In Jesus' Name.

fashio show. that is what i have seen, and see.

Fancy Clothes to Hide the Fancy Sins from God or to show how God is Honoring them with Worldly Wealth??? Enjoy! John DOCTRINE OF WEALTH A. Introduction. 1. The love of God is the greatest prosperity that has ever come to the human race. 2. The love of God is the highest and greatest form of riches and wealth in the Church Age. 3. In our scale of values, all other forms of wealth and prosperity are insignificant by comparison. 4. To have the love of God is the greatest wealth in all the universe. B. Scriptural Documentation. 1. As a result of becoming believers in Jesus Christ, we have the most fantastic wealth in our portfolio of invisible assets. This wonderful wealth is mentioned a number of times throughout the New Testament epistles. 2. Eph 3:16-17, "that He may give you on the basis of the riches of His glory that you might receive strength with power through the personal agency of His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ is at home in your hearts through doctrine, when you have become firmly rooted and when you have a secure place by agency of reciprocal love." a. What is the most important thing that God can ever give us? It is the riches of His glory His divine love. When did He give us this divine love? He gave it to us in eternity past. b. If you are a believer in Christ, you have the greatest wealth that has ever existed and the greatest responsibility to advance to spiritual maturity because of that wealth. Those with wealth have a great responsibility to others. We are responsible to others to reach spiritual maturity because we have the love of God as the riches of His glory. c. "The riches of His glory" is the love of God, the integrity of God, and the fair shake that God gives us at four points in life (salvation, rebound, death, resurrection). d. "That you might become strong" is an incorrect translation here. This is the passive voice. "To become strong" is the active voice meaning of the verb. The culminative aorist emphasizes the result of a completed action. The result is the mentorship of the Holy Spirit in teaching the believer Bible doctrine. The completed action is the Church Age believer advancing to a personal sense of destiny and then occupation with Christ. The passive voice of personal agency is found here, in which the instrumental case is used to express personal agency rather than impersonal means. e. The phrase "in your inner being" refers to the indwelling of Spirit out of which comes the filling of the Spirit, which is the power of the spiritual life. f. This verse tells us that God the Holy Spirit teaches us the "all things" of Jn 14:26 and that we are filled with the Spirit (as per Eph 5:18, "Stop getting drunk with wine in which is indulgence in sensual pleasure, but keep on being filled with the Spirit."). The investment of this great wealth begins with the filling of the Spirit at salvation and continues to grow as we learn doctrine and continue to be filled with the Spirit. g. Nothing is life can destroy the riches of God's glory. The riches of God's glory includes the spiritual life with the ten problem solving devices. This is true strength. God's power is delegated to us through the Word of God which is "alive and powerful" and through the filling of the Holy Spirit. h. Gal 5:25, "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by means of the Spirit." Some people discover how to live by the Spirit, but they are not walking by the Spirit, because they do not have the right scale of values. i. "Christ being at home in our hearts" has to due with our carnality or spirituality, not with our salvation. 3. Eph 3:18-21, "that you might utilize the power to grasp the idea with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to come to know the love for Christ which goes beyond knowledge [GNOSIS--academic knowledge of doctrine in the left lobe of the soul], that you may be filled with all the fullness of God [your escrow blessings for time and eternity]. Now to Him who is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or imagine, on the basis on the power that works for us, to Him be the glory by means of the church and by means of Christ Jesus with reference to all generations of the unique age of the ages. Amen." There are four great principles in Eph 3:19-20. a. The fullness of God is all that God gives to the believer who executes his own spiritual life. b. Tactical victory of the invisible hero in time is execution of the protocol plan of God for the royal family through maximum metabolized doctrine in the stream of consciousness and maximum function of the ten problem solving devices. The spiritual life is much more than all we could ask for or imagine. It is based on God's power which works for us. c. "By means of Christ Jesus." Jesus Christ established precedence for the spiritual life in the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union. d. When the believer fulfills his very own spiritual life on earth, he becomes a winner with the highest form of blessing and prosperity that is excluded from the passing prosperity of the rest of the human race. "For the glory of the world passes away." 4. Rom 9:23, "In order that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He had prepared in advance for His glory." a. As members of the royal family of God, we are described as "vessels of mercy," i.e., we have received mercy. When we believed in Jesus Christ, we received forty things from God. That was the beginning of God's mercy and God's grace toward us. After that, we receive logistical grace support and blessing. All believers receive this whether they are winners or losers. We are the beneficiaries of the most fantastic plan that God has ever put together for those who are believers in Jesus Christ. b. This verse tells us that each believer has a destiny, although very few believers have a personal sense of destiny, which is the experience of attaining spiritual self- esteem and beyond. There are two categories of destiny. (1) The temporal destiny is the advance to maturity and becoming an invisible hero. (2) The eternal destiny begins with the Rapture of the Church when we receive our resurrection bodies. c. There are two categorical functions of volition. (1) There is the sovereignty of God who has provided everything for our benefit, here referred to as "the riches of His glory given to vessels of mercy." This is called the ROM chip in the computer of divine decrees. (2) There is also the free will of man of the PROM chip. d. So for the believer in Jesus Christ, there coexists God's sovereignty and human volition. We can have these riches through our positive volition toward the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. e. Death and resurrection are God's victory, dependent solely upon His sovereign decision. So the only opportunity we have to use the free will God has given us in order to exercise it for His plan and purpose and to enjoy the riches He provided for us in eternity past is now. 5. Rom 11:33-36, "O the depth [inexhaustibility] of the wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How inscrutable are His decrees; how untrackable are His ways! Who then has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His advisor? Or who has given to Him and has not been compensated? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen." 6. Eph 1:18, "That the eyes of your right lobe may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints." a. To be "enlightened" requires perception of the Word of God, post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation, metabolization of Bible doctrine, the attainment of wisdom beginning at spiritual self-esteem. b. You have a fantastic inheritance and a fantastic destiny. You have the greatest opportunity that has ever been given in history to born-again believers. Nothing like it ever existed in the Old Testament. Only Jesus Christ was the recipient of it during the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union. 7. Eph 3:8, "To me, the very least of all saints, this grace has been given to preach to the Gentiles the inscrutable wealth of Jesus Christ." In eternity past, God the Father provided for you a complete portfolio of invisible assets and escrow blessings. 8. Col 1:27, "In whom God willed to reveal to the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." 9. Col 2:2, "That their right lobes may be encouraged, having been knit together in virtue love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding on the basis of metabolized doctrine of God's mystery." B. Promises of Wealth. 1. Phil 4:19, "My God shall supply all of your needs on the basis of His riches in glory in Christ Jesus." a. These riches include logistical grace support. God's justice imputed God's righteousness to us at salvation. God gave us half of His own integrity, something we could never attain by our own works. God's righteousness given to us at salvation is the basis for God being able to give us anything else. b. Possessing God's perfect righteousness means that whether you are a winner or loser in life, God will support and bless you. He does so because His justice imputes all blessing down the grace pipeline from His justice to His righteousness in you. So blessing never depends on how good or bad you are, or on anything else you do or don't do. c. God blesses us on the basis of His riches in glory, not on the basis of who and what we are, or on the basis of what we do. 2. Heb 13:5-6, "Let your lifestyle be free from love for money; be content with what you have, for He Himself has said, `I will never leave you, I will never forsake you.' So that we may say with confidence, `The Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid of what man will do to me.'" a. That's a promise to winners and losers alike, to the spiritual and the carnal, to the spiritual adult and to the apostate. b. You have all of God's wealth available to you in your portfolio of invisible assets. C. Divine Wealth. 1. Before you depart from this life, you should realize from your perception of doctrine how insignificant and unimportant human success is compared to what God has given you as prosperity. It is beyond the dreams of mankind. 2. God has given to us a spiritual life in which we can succeed no matter what our station in life. Prosperity and success can only be related to our spiritual life. Your spiritual life is the metabolized doctrine circulating in the stream of consciousness of the right lobe of the soul. 3. You should do well in whatever you do in life. But whether you are recognized or not is totally inconsequential. Approbation from man means absolutely zero compared to what God has provided in the spiritual life which He prepared for you in eternity past. When that spiritual life is fulfilled, it results in the highest form of prosperity. No matter how you succeed in life in any area, these things are meaningless when it comes time to die. 4. Your portfolio of invisible assets is exceedingly abundantly beyond all we could ask or think. Eph 3:20, "Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, ..." What God has given to us is absolutely phenomenal, but you have to learn it, you have to know it, you have to have priorities related to your spiritual life. Every human success is meaningless compared to what you have done with your spiritual life. 5. Your spiritual life is the true concept of success. Your spiritual life is lived in the soul. The content of your spiritual life is metabolized doctrine in the stream of consciousness. The function of your spiritual life is problem solving devices on the defensive line of the soul. Our spiritual life is one of the forty things we receive at the moment of faith in Christ. The spiritual life has its own success standards and it provides a system of greatness beyond your dreams. 1 Cor 2:9, "But just as it is written, `Eye has not seen and ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.'" 6. Regardless of your status in life--humble or great, known or unknown--God has given to every believer his very own spiritual life. Whether you use it or not, it is available to you until the day you depart from life. Prosperity for time and eternity is related to this spiritual life, so that you can be a spiritual winner, an invisible hero in time but extremely visible for all eternity. Therefore, approbation from mankind is absolutely meaningless. What people think of you is inconsequential; the only thing that counts is what God thinks of you, your spiritual life. 7. Since the day you believed in Christ, you possessed the greatest systems of values in your portfolio of invisible assets, the greatest system of values that this world and human history has ever known. Your values and your priorities must be related to something that is permanent beyond the grave, and that is your spiritual life. 8. Only in the fulfillment of your spiritual life can you say with Paul, Phil 1:21, "For me, living is Christ, and dying is profit."

a fashion show does make church a little more interesting

They go to worship God. The clothing you refer to are called vestments and each of them has a purpose besides their appearance. In the middle ages the average catholic would be aware of the meaning of every piece of that clothing. None of it is for the sake of fashion.

Easy one. People go to church to worship God. People in my parish are very casual in their dress. Some might even say too casual. With love in Christ.

There is a belief among protestants that God sometimes rewards/blesses you financially. As a result you have people who go to Church wearing the most expensive jewelry and clothes that they could find. Some of the men look like pimps, and some of the women look like madams. It's sort oof like a way to brag as to how much God has chosen you to bless you financially. It's like bragging that God likes you more than he does other people. It is basically hypocrisy. I stay away form churches like that. Some people try to justify this by saying that they honor God so much that they want to dress the best for him. Don't they understand that that is hipocrisy and not rooted in the bible. Sometimes people who overdress for church have sins that they are trying to hide with gold and glamour. Just think about how many people dress like pimps and madams to go to church, and think that they are blessed. If you are blessed why would you dishonor God by dressing like a pimp/madam.

Hey thats the church in america.All they do is play church and are there to be entertained.Read Revelation 3:14-19,that is the church today.

I wonder that sometimes myself. I'm quite concerned with all the answers on here on how they think it is and that has pushed them away. I've always though the whole concept of "wearing your sunday best" was absolute BS, but now I see it can be a little more dangerous than I had at first thought... I've always worn casual going to church. Although there were those days when I was a little more legalistic and wore a suit. Yeah, but casual for me can be considered fancy to others, since I ALWAYS wear collared shirts. I've always been somewhat annoyed with the fanciness in the Church, but I may be viewing it with a little more concern now... I think I may be looking at a few other doctrines I thought "didn't matter" a little more closely... Very good question though. Thank you. +3

Too many go to church to show off their fashions, but on the other hand churches are not worth going to any longer as very little of the teaching is Biblical and more church doctrine based of assumed lies handed down for hundreds of years.

If it's a fashion show, I would be considered scum. I think it used to be traditional to dress up on Sunday and give the Sunday best from the 50s to the 70s. Now people go to Mass in longer shorts and t-shirts. +4

Fashion show. Do you think any one person could listen to that black-and-white rhetoric brainwashing bullshit on "why you should feel ashamed and guilty for being human" for an hour and not go nuts? I promise you quite a few families go there to put on the "we are involved in the community, happy, gee-golly, look-at-us" show or fashion show as you say. Oh..also they go to artificially cleanse themselves for their dysfunctional mindless psychotic behavior for the past week - example: let's see...I beat the dog, slept with the neighbors wife, drank 5 gallons of whiskey and I get to go to church for 1 hour on Sunday and I'm clean ? Deal !!!! Yes, there are these idiots out there and a lot of them. Come on...let's bump heads and debate if you deny this, you mindless splitting good/bad all-or-nothing psychotic herd of religious sheep. God is a very personal thing...each one of us has a personal higher power - religion tries to make this a public affair and paint our god for us and that's a no-no.

There is definitely no fashion show going on in my community, lol. I live in a 'college town' and half the people in the pews are college students who show up with wet-from-the-shower ponytails and ripped blue jeans. I just think it's wonderful that they come, on their own without their parents, now that they are away at school. They sing joyfully and smile unselfconsciously....God bless them all, rags or riches on their bods, who cares?