First, on being a minority. After living in the Southeast US my entire life as a white person, it's a change. I hardly even think about it or notice it though, but yesterday at the mall I made the point to look at all of the (beautiful) races of people. It is such a wonderful melting pot of races here. It's hard to know "what" a person is, and most people just don't care, thankfully.
Second, on going to church. The first practical issue we have is the fact that most of the churches are about 25 miles away....can you say, lack of the sense of community?
Second, hardly anyone goes to church. At least hardly anyone we've met. This is so totally different than living in the Bible Belt. This fact doesn't bother us, it's just eye opening.
Another issue we've had with the church we were attending is the lack of kids/families that were involved. And then, when the church would attempt to have Sunday School usually a teenage kids would teach it and many times would teach some very important facts wrong. For example, one kid was trying to teach about the story of Mary and Joseph and somehow thought that when Jesus was "conceived" they had been married a long time and were trying to have a baby for a long time and that's why they were so excited about Mary being pregnant with Jesus. Wow, there are so many issues there, where to begin?!
Anyway, we've been to church once since Christmas, and are still contemplating it.
What about starting a home church or bible study in your house once a month or once a week. There are lots of studies you could use. Jean has a study once a month in her home. and it has reached out to lots of her friends.
ReplyDeleteLike Pat, I would love to see you and Mark start a bible study in your home. I challenge you to! Finding just the right study would be so important if you are to be hosting non-Christians, well if you are hosting Christians too. Pray about it and I'll pray too.
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