CJ Mahaney: The Soul of Modesty
Alex and I are excited to share the following resource with you. It is heart-focused, grace-filled, gospel-centered message by CJ Mahaney, entitled The Soul of Modesty. We posted about this before the Modesty Survey results were released, but we felt it could use additional attention.
CJ Mahaney is the leader of Sovereign Grace Ministries, the man who mentored our brother Josh at Covenant Life Church, and one of Alex’s and my living heroes.
In his generosity and support of this project, Mr. Mahaney has given special permission to make this audio message available to our readers free of charge.
If we could have, we would have made everyone listen to this message before viewing the survey results. As it is, we strongly encourage each of you to avail yourself to this wonderful resource, which will help you to properly approach and apply the results of the Modesty Survey. We know you will be blessed.
+ ‘The Soul of Modesty’ +
Message by C.J. Mahaney © 2003 Covenant Life Church
- The Modesty Survey Petition: A list of seven encouragements from Christian guys to the girls reading the survey results.
- The Responsibility of Modesty (Part 1): Excerpted from the survey results, a 20-year-old Christian man shares a powerful summation of men’s responsibility in this area.
- The Responsibility of Modesty (Part 2): Excerpted from the survey results, a 22-year-old Christian man shares an insightful analogy explaining the responsibility of women to protect their brothers in Christ.
- The Purpose of Clothing: John Piper explains both the negative and positive messages God communicated by clothing Adam and Eve after they fell into sin.
- Free To Be Modest: Nancy Leigh DeMoss explains how living under the Ownership and Lordship of Jesus Christ, frees us to be modest.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Thank you, thank you for publishing the modesty survey. I was moved to tears that there are so many Christian young men who have the kind of heart portrayed in the comments. This will be an invaluable resource for my girls! We plan to pass this on and on. Thank you to all of the young men who said encouraging things to all of the young women out there. Bless you all.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Wow! That is so true. I have had these convictions all of my teenage years. Sometimes I have struggled with trusting my parents on this subject though I have submitted and learned to agree. This has been a real encouragement to see that there are Christian guys who care about finding a modest Christian girl. This has also opened my eyes to see that Mom and Dad were definitely right all along.
Thank you for having the courage to stand up in a fallen culture!
February 17th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Woohoo! It’s an MP3. Thanks for the link.
July 3rd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
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June 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Thank you, Alex and Brett, so much for providing these resources and for doing the modesty survey. It required a huge amount of work, effort, and time. But you should know that it is completely worth it. You have helped me think about things regarding clothing that I would never have thought about on my own. Thank you so much! You both are a tremendous blessing! God bless you guys!
August 5th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I read the survey its kind of over reacting i think, Jeans imodest how ?!!!! while there is some imodest clothing I do think that tank tops and jeans are fine to wear. now dont get me wrong im not one of those people who dont understand and are crushing you I understand fine almost why are jeans imodest? Why are tank tops imodest? someone help me out here.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Thomas B.,
Let me try to help you out.
If you look at the results on “Jeans are generally immodest, even if they aren’t tight” you will see that 41.6% of the guys commenting strongly disagree. I personally believe that it is fine for a girl to wear jeans just as long as they are not too tight. Some people have a problem with even lose jeans though, because they say that it shows a girl’s form too well.
As for tank tops? I think they are immodest because they generally are way too tight and/or they show too much neck and shoulders. They also tend to show the bra straps which can be a big stumbling block.
Hope it helps ya.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
Hey Brett & Alex, Thank you very much for doing what you’re doing on this blog. I know this has nothing to do with girls being modest.
But what exactly are your thoughts on guys clothing?
-Skinny Jeans?
-Tight Shirts?
I know for a fact those are HUGE stumbling blocks for me!
Just wondering! Thanks Much~
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
its really amazing to see how many christian guys are out there and that careee aboutt modesty! because before i never used to think that they really cared … but now i no that they do care
thankkks
holly
February 28th, 2009 at 7:07 am
I was trying to download the sermon “The soul of Modesty ” to have others read can you help me? I am a Pastor’s wife and there is a need for this in our church among the teen girls Thanks
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:43 am
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November 1st, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I think its very good that guys are telling girls that some of these things are immodest, however, I think when a girl gets the soul of chirst and the soul of modesty, she will probably go beyond what even these guys think is modest. i.e. Longer skirts, and sleves, even when the survey has found that most guys dont think its a stumbling block.
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 am
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April 10th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
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May 7th, 2010 at 6:21 am
thx so much 4 the modesty survey. It helped me soooooo much. I posted it on buzz 4 my friends 2 c and I’m so Glad and Joyful and TOUCHEDthat there a Christian guys that do care 4 their sis in Christ!!