The Unconditional Standard

I had been wearing my blue jeans at home and when we were around family, but hadn't really gone out in public yet, until that day... As I put my jeans on that morning, I kept telling myself, "Wearing jeans is not a sin and I should be able to wear them anywhere I want." I knew though that if anyone from "the church" saw me, to them it would only confirm that I had backslid and was on my way to hell. Some of them thought that already, simply because we had left the church we had been attending si