Meagan Good, the 32-year-old Christian actress married to Hollywood executive and preacher DeVon Franklin, is responding to the backlash she is receiving after wearing a revealing dress to the recent BET awards.
Good presented the BET "Best Gospel Artist" award in a revealing blue dress with a plunging neckline. The Christian actress' wardrobe caused a number of people to take to social media networks like Twitter to question the actress who has been vocal about her faith in numerous interviews lately.
"I never forgot God was there for a second.. and would never be ashamed
of what I'm wearing (in) front of him...," Meagan responded to one person
on Instagram. "He loves me for exactly who He created me to be despite
what anyone else thinks..."
Meagan decided to respond to critics by taking to her Instagram account.
“@adriannacolbert That’s the thing Girl- is that I don’t feel convicted about this at all. my spirit is saddened that our people only know one way to think and process things..I’m not any less holy because the dress I wore -I may not be who people think I should be -but I’m morphing into exactly who God wants me to be.. My excuse is never “I’m going to do me” and I don’t feel that I need to make an excuse or defend or what I wore .. I know I have a responsibility -and I’m working daily to fulfill the full potential of all God has created me to be..A dialogue was started about my character, integrity, my walk with God and my Husband -simply based on a dress that I wore.., Of course I’m going to have a reaction to people saying negative things… It’s just sad.. Makes me sad not regretful.. My heart and spirit is always open to whatever my Father would want to share with me… And my spirit tells me to be exactly who I authentically am -because that’s what’s going to reach who I was authentically designed to touch.. people like me who are often misunderstood and told their cut of God’s promise -because they don’t look the role …when God doesn’t care about us “looking the role”..he is always cared about bringing us in -and us being whatever we need to be to bring Those left out in ..And it just makes me sad that us as Christians can’t see beyond our initial reaction and don’t seek God before the attack other brothers and sisters …and never think for one moment that: God knows what he’s doing and he uses everything for his glory .. and he has a plan for every specific situation.. I had intentions on anything .. Merely picked a dress I saw and loved … God knows my heart and that I didn’t do anything wrong .. And he will use even people’s thoughts to bring him glory.”
Meagan has defended what she calls being a "sexy Christian" in the
past.
Meagan Good has spoken about women being sexy in a classy way, and spoke
about some religious people being judgmental of her decision to showcase
that side of her personality.
" [...] I'm getting sexy and all that but there is a way to do it, there is a classy way to do everything and there is nothing wrong with being sexy or having sex appeal and I think that I am definitely going to be someone who is boldly going to go out to the masses and be someone who say, ' Look! Women its okay to do this, that and the other,'" Good said while speaking at One Church International in Los Angeles earlier this year. "...I don't like [how] sometimes people who are religious will try and force everyone into a box and judge them."
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