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So I want to go back to Babylon now! Why?
Rhys 🕊:
Excellent Dave. I get a few blank looking faces when I say too much. I came to these truths but no one pushing me into it so I think I need to tread carefully with others.
Have never done an occasional visit since but they did try often to get me back. I almost did but glad now I didn't. I agree dragged, God's done a lot of that with me. I was not at all content with what was going on in church. Too much confusion and I couldn't see God in the light that they were portraying. God must be really stupid if what they are saying is true.
Make sure your message gets tapped. Would love to hear that message. Of course that's if you get to the end of it before a riot takes place.
Gina:
--- Quote from: Extol on February 10, 2013, 03:45:32 PM ---Rhys,
If it's the social part of church that you miss, maybe you can get together with some of the people that you say were loving and encouraging. Not to have a Bible conference or anything, but just to hang out...Go to lunch, play tennis, watch rugby. . . We are to "come out of Her" but I don't think that means we are forbidden from being social with people who have different beliefs. My family (which lives in a different state) believes the traditional teachings of Christendom but I still love going back to visit. We don't have any discussions on our faith--we mostly just spend time together, playing games, playing sports, watching movies, talking about life, etc.
If you do fellowship with any of these folks, maybe just being around you will have some influence in their lives that may eventually lead them to the truth. Last spring I exchanged a few e-mails regarding my beliefs with my mother, and was encouraged by her responses...until she suddenly stopped responding and said, essentially, that we should agree to disagree. Yet after I visited home for Christmas, she said "Your father and I still cry when you leave. You are by far the most Christ-like of our sons." This was very surprising. She knows I don't go to church, and my two brothers do go to church (the same one as my parents, in fact.) During my Christmas visit, we never talked about my beliefs or anything. I'm not even sure why she said it, but apparently there was just something about the way I carried myself, or talked, or behaved, that made her see Christ. Maybe something similar can happen if you hang out with some old friends from church.
And of course, you can always play guitar and sing, whether you're in church or not, whether with others or alone.
Hang in there brother, we love you!
8)
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I just wanted to comment on your reply, Extol. That bolded part nearly made me cry. What an affirmation. What a blessing it is to read those words! Wow.
God blessed you.
Gina
Gina:
Rhys,
Don't you like Extol's reply? I do. :) No matter what you do, I wouldn't judge you for it. Besides, I know you'll be back eventually. We're like the Hotel California -- you can check out any time you like but you can never leave. Bwwaaaahhahaahaahaaaa
hehe
Gina
Rhys 🕊:
--- Quote from: " Shorty " on February 11, 2013, 05:15:24 AM ---Rhys,
Don't you like Extol's reply? I do. :) No matter what you do, I wouldn't judge you for it. Besides, I know you'll be back eventually. We're like the Hotel California -- you can check out any time you like but you can never leave. Bwwaaaahhahaahaahaaaa
hehe
Gina
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I do indeed like Extol's reply. It's too awesome for words. Thank you Extol for it and bless you my brother.
I think I will stay here in Hotel California, it's nice and sunny here! ;D
And I agree Bwwaaaahhahaahaahaaaa and zhaaahaahhaaa (spellcheck does not like)
Rhys
Extol:
I know there are people here who never liked church and have never missed it, but I'm more like you Rhys...I have missed it at times, and like you suggest, it was probably because I was heavily involved so it was a very "social" time for me.
When I was a teenager in the late 1990s, I was involved in a church that had a great kids program: full puppet stage, skits, music, other entertainments. I was on the puppet team. My three favorite times of the week, almost every week, were:
1. Sunday night youth group
2. Sunday morning church
3. Saturday morning puppet practice
Those were the highlights every week for me.
I relocated a few times, and I never went to a church I liked nearly that much. So I'm thankful that I didn't have to get pulled right out from it, because it would have been tough. By the time I did leave church for good (around 2005), it was pretty easy. I think when I do miss it, it's just the social times I miss. I had much more friends when I was a teenager than I do now. Of course, with the beautiful wife God gave me, I don't miss friends or church that much anymore. ;D
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