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I attended my church’s prayer service this week. I am a single guy. So I go to church by myself. Spending an hour in God’s house, with Jesus present, seems like a good use of time to me.
Another guy came up to me after the service and said, “You’re clearly devoted to this church and it speaks well of you that you weren’t dragged here by a wife.”
I'm not sure either, but you know how people are. Lots of people say things, but sometimes they're empty of substance. I would have probably dropped it from my mind a moment or two afterwards. You have your reasons for going to church, and they're between you and God. I'd be more concerned with God's impressions than some Bozo passing by in the crowd. Was he drunk?
Last edited by Thoreau424; 08-20-2021 at 05:43 PM..
I attended my church’s prayer service this week. I am a single guy. So I go to church by myself. Spending an hour in God’s house, with Jesus present, seems like a good use of time to me.
Another guy came up to me after the service and said, “You’re clearly devoted to this church and it speaks well of you that you weren’t dragged here by a wife.”
I’m not sure if that was a compliment?
i think this is statistical fact. Years ago I quit attending 'regular' church. My wife does, periodically she tries to shake me up to go with her.
I attended my church’s prayer service this week. I am a single guy. So I go to church by myself. Spending an hour in God’s house, with Jesus present, seems like a good use of time to me.
Another guy came up to me after the service and said, “You’re clearly devoted to this church and it speaks well of you that you weren’t dragged here by a wife.”
I’m not sure if that was a compliment?
Sadly, if you take a look around in many churches, it tends to be just women. We can debate why that is. But it just is. It's for that reason that I can see why some churches might want a woman leading it.
So when a single guy goes to church, it can be seen as an anomaly. It's sad, but that's how it is. But men need to be involved.
I attended my church’s prayer service this week. I am a single guy. So I go to church by myself. Spending an hour in God’s house, with Jesus present, seems like a good use of time to me.
Another guy came up to me after the service and said, “You’re clearly devoted to this church and it speaks well of you that you weren’t dragged here by a wife.”
I’m not sure if that was a compliment?
Many of my brothers came into the faith through their wives. In a small way I did. I was the first to go, but she was the first to take it more seriously. She is the one who accepted the Bible study, which I later joined in on.
If I am not mistaken, GSP native is from 'Jersey. If this is accurate, we have shells and cores made of Teflon and granite. The only proper rejoinder would be to say, 'But I am transgendered, what does that mean to me?'
The line describes your devotion to G-d, nothing more or less. You can be direct and ask, 'What does that mean?' without sounding / acting offended. That puts it back on the fellow to better define it. I find people frustrated and this would be one way to start a dialogue. And you can return to him in the future and ask that question - it is not without context.
Aside from the elderly and children, there are few men who attend spiritual services for enrichment. This is unfortunate. There are many single fellows who go (I am one and I seek that contact, even if it is distant). If you feel really bold, you can apologize for him and suggest it can only get better, if he continues to attend.
If I am not mistaken, GSP native is from 'Jersey. If this is accurate, we have shells and cores made of Teflon and granite. The only proper rejoinder would be to say, 'But I am transgendered, what does that mean to me?'
The line describes your devotion to G-d, nothing more or less. You can be direct and ask, 'What does that mean?' without sounding / acting offended. That puts it back on the fellow to better define it. I find people frustrated and this would be one way to start a dialogue. And you can return to him in the future and ask that question - it is not without context.
Aside from the elderly and children, there are few men who attend spiritual services for enrichment. This is unfortunate. There are many single fellows who go (I am one and I seek that contact, even if it is distant). If you feel really bold, you can apologize for him and suggest it can only get better, if he continues to attend.
Yeah, because that's what happens. Other people aren't exactly like us, so we place them in a category. We think it helps. But we have to remember to take them out of it after we finished our first thought. If we don't, we could have the wrong impression of them.
I think that's what it means when it says that the spiritual man judges all things, in that we have the resources through the indwelling Spirit to deal with every argument, as they come along. But he is, himself, to be judged by no man. Meaning that the spiritual man doesn't use a code that can be communicated through words to achieve this. He does it through intimacy with God.
It's better not to judge our fellow man. It works out that we can learn more from God, if we don't. For they also have to be in their own states of ignorance, and will cause offense, even if we know they may not have meant it. Sometimes they do mean it, but probably more often we wanted them to have meant it.
We may only know that about them through faith, what they meant. You can use your faith to give other people the ability to use error to learn. If you are patient, it can teach you to let go, until you see the roots of their question better?
Yes, to let go of what offends you, OP, about what he said. I know, it hurts. But, then, you have resisted the urge to place a brother into an "outer" category, and leave him there.
It's really just about keeping your issues to yourself, while your brother demonstrates his to you, openly, in church. Like I said, it hurts.
But he is telling you something about his own need to understand some things about his own approach to things in his own life. It could even be about his own sexuality. Who knows? He, at least, doesn't understand women the same way that you do.
I wonder, do you feel that when you spot a charging rhino, you are at least entitled to try to get out of the way. Well, run to the sides, then, and not straight away from him, like in some drummed up horror movie.
i just did not receive any bread in that church....
...and the wine was fake!
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