Godsgirl2819

Even if you don't believe in Christianity, and your child regardless of age comes to you and expresses a desire to go to church, would you deny them that power to choose for themselves?

I can understand saying no to a younger child, but if they were 17?

I ask because my dad is an atheist and allowed me to go to church since I was a little girl as this was my desire and he believes that it is totally my choice, no matter what his personal beliefs are.

I also believe that the same should go for any religion, if a child comes to a stage where they express that they do not want to belong to that religion, we should not deny them as it is their choice.

A well known South African pastor got divorced. oh big scandal it was. but he went before his concregation and asked for forgiveness. some accepted, some didn't. but that is not what i am asking. A few years later a church in the same network as this pastor was hosting a conference and invited a well known speaker in that field. firstly he asked an Exorbitant amount over and above airfare and acccomodation, which is understandable but come on, it's africa. anyway, he then found out this church was in the same network as the pastor that divorced and refused left right and centre to be at a conference with a church who supports that pastor.

What the heck do you think about that?

I mean if my friend were to come to me and tell me she had sex before marriage and is now pregnant and she is a christian would i turn my back on her. no, i would support her. wait that's already happened. Isn't that the Christianly thing to do? I am not condoning what this pastor did but he asked for forgiveness from both God and his church. It happened. It's over with. But to denounce a church who is in the same network as him? Isn't that going against the teaching of Jesus who had some real bad people follow Him? He even forgave Judas even before he betrayed Him!

Obviously this guy was all yada yada but no real christian. what's your thoughts on this

thanks

I am not trying to make fun of anyone here, I was just thinking.

You know when you ask a question and ask for people's thoughts and opinions you get people who give you scriptures and links sending you to someone else's point of view, and they don't give their thoughts or opinions. Don't you want to meet them in person? To find out if they do that in real life. You know: What's your name? Answer: Psalm 23. What's your favourite colour? Answer: http://www.gotyournose.com/

I'm not making fun of them, I'm just curious. I am the type of person that sees things differently okay. so humour me.

This goes for all kinds of similar situations where you've asked a question and the response was not what you were looking for. share share share, funny stories. let's lighten things up a bit on R&S

please tell me your thoughts - hehe!! (i suppose some of you will be nice enough to leave scriptures and links hey?)

They tell you if you give a certain amount of money your family will be saved / you'll receive a miracle / you'll receive a million etc?

Personally I don't like it as you give what you feel you should give outside your tithe. No one tell you how much to give. That's between you and God.

What are your thoughts?

have you given to these preachers?

This is not my statement. So don't shoot me please! This is something I heard.

God called America to be the forerunner, the nation to help bring Christ to the world but unfortunately they've missed it. Yes they've tried but too many christians in America are not representing God the way they should and instead of bringing people to God they have turned people from God. They've become traditional and stubborn. God has taken that anointing away and given it to another country.

What are your thoughts about this? When I heard this I wanted to really know what you think.

Please I repeat this is not from me. I heard this from a Pastor. so I just want to know what you think.

Thanks

Do you access Heaven with your worship or do you believe that you can only access Heaven once you die?

Your thoughts please

Do you think the Church should be a church of Isaiah 60 (besides being a church of Jesus Christ)

You know, experiencing Isaiah 60 in their lives?

Your thoughts please

Do you think the Church should be a church of Isaiah 60 (besides being a church of Jesus Christ)

You know, experiencing Isaiah 60 in their lives?

Your thoughts please

For interests sake. doesn't matter who you are, what you are, who you believe in and how you live. Are you happy? That's all I want to know. Do you celebrate life or hate it? Do you love it or wish it would end?

Please also add why or why not and what you believe in.

Thanks for your answers! I appreciate it.

I'm just curious. Let me explain. I am generally a joyful person but recently someone betrayed me and it hurt. I have forgiven and moved on but yesterday was one of those days where the memories came crashing back. I came onto R&S not to ask how to get over it and blah blah blah but just for interset sake questions. I really want to understand people better and I asked questions based on that. I must say I got some really good answers from all sides and one or two people were rude, obnoxious and nasty but in all everyone gave great answers that helped me understand people a bit better. And I was really happy about it. Not sad or upset or uptight.

So my question is really, how many times have we left R&S feeling good about ourselves or others? Have we ever been satisfied with answers or are we continually rejecting people's thoughts and ideas. there are a lot of people on here who genuinely are looking for help or want to help and some of them have been cut down terribly. So basically how many times have we actually walked away happy without hurting anyone. You might feel happy for cutting someone down but what I'm getting at is how many times have we walked away feeling good about ourselves for helping someone without having to be nasty? There's too many people throwing stuff at each other and cutting each other down. How many have actually gotten the answers they seeked? There are people out there who are earnestly seeking answers, they stumble upon Y/A and they innocently ask then they get cut down by people. That's exactly what happened to me. Obviously I got over it but that's not the issue. I'm truly trying to find out how many of you received answers that helped.

I know it's long, forgive me, but I like to hear people's opinions and answers about things like this. Thanks for your answers.

This is for everyone

did you compliment someone, smile and say have a great day

Please tell.

Just curious

have you been worshipping God the same way for the past how many years?

Just curious,

Thanks

Just asking, as I recently discovered for myself that it had been awhile and I was so focused on the me factor that I forgot who God was. He says He is always with us and never forsakes us and here I was trying to make my own way and God was like chill man, I'm know your needs and I will take care of them. Please share your own experiences

As for the non christians, i know you have something to say so go ahead, i'm not going to beg and plead for you not to. I just won't take it into account but thank you anyway for taking the time to answer a question not directed to you.

I ask because everyone on this site knows I am a christian so that seems to affect the way they answer me, even if I asked do you like the colour blue? So i am interested in how they would answer those same questions in person. Since a lot of people hide behind their computers and Anonymity. I am just trying to understand something so please don't take offense. It is not my intention.

Thanks

We've all been approached by someone different than us whether it's race, culture or religion and sometimes we have a great conversation and end up with a friend for life. but other times we part ways swearing, grumbling even threatening.

How would you like to be approached or spoken to by someone different than you? Now this could mean anyone.

Rant, rave, let it out if you want to. I am doing a study and recently I was told by a Buddhist I was cool to talk to and I made a friend for life.

He said that he like our Christ just not our Christians. Who agrees with this statement and why and who disagrees and why.

I agree. Whether you believe in him or not he set a standard and unfortunately Christians are not following His lead. Yet they are supposed to since they call themselves Christians which are supposed to be followers of Christ. But I suppose everyone has their bad apples. I do not condemn them as that is not my place but I wish I could slap them silly and call them stupid for dragging Christ's name in the dirt. So I should start with myself then as I am guilty of this. But I would like to hear other people's thoughts or am I the only Christian out there that actually thinks I am sometimes not worthy to call myself a Christian as I bring shame upon my Christ? And is this the reason non christians don't like us and don't want to serve God?

Please understand I am doing this as part of a study.

Thanks

I recently heard that our minds reject the Word of God. The Bible was written by people inspired by the Holy Spirit, therefore we need to accept the Word in our spirit before our minds accept it. Is this why non christians seem to battle to understand the Bible? Is this why even Christians reject the Word of God? I would like to hear your thoughts on this. Personally I agree as you need to have a connection to the author of the Bible in order to fully understand it. But this is not about my opinion. I would really like to hear your opinion.

Thanks

I'm asking this question here as there are many intellectual people who frequent this section as opposed to the Friends section as there are more people asking questions there than answering, so I thought I would give this section a go. Please forgive me!! Maybe it's also good to bring a change to the norm!!! LOL!

In June/July I met a guy. Now he is a nice guy and I was open to both friendship or a relationship. Now I did not instigate this friendship, it all came from his side. I never ran after him like so many other girls did (he's quite good looking) and allowed him to always make the first moves. After a while when our friendship grew I would freely walk up to him and start chatting with him. Then in October everything changed. He stopped talking to me. In fact he stopped greeting me altogether. I could be right by him and not one word. In fact I walked into a building and was greeted by a friend who was going on about how great I looked that day and he was also standing there and I looked at him to see him looking me up and down and he walked away, not one word!!! No greeting, nothing. It first started when the one night after dance practise I was waiting for another friend and he was walking towards his car and he looked straight at me and then caught the attention of the girl walking in front of him and started chatting to her. At first I was like ok, maybe it's just a coincidence. But it happened again. And before I knew it he wasn't talking to me at all unless he had to. He went from going out of his way to greet me and hug me and we would be chased home after church because we were chatting so late and they want to lock up to walking right past me like I don't exist! Being the person I am I of course don't force myself upon him and go up to him to greet him if this is how he is. When I did do that it felt as if he just wanted to get away from me! So I've distanced myself too because it seems that is what he wants. I don't know of anything that I could've done to upset him. My friends don't help much because they just tell me he has issues but he doesn't do it to anybody else, so probably his issues are me!!

I don't divulge my feelings for men to just anybody and he is a likable guy but that doesn't mean I want to date him. The possibility is there if it comes from him too, but now it seems as if he doesn't even want to be friends. The thing is it hurts because I thought we were friends and used to chat about everything! Now I would be surprised just to get a hello out of him and that hurts everytime he walks past me and ignores me. You might think I'm exaggerating but the one time he sat right in front of me in church and at the start of church the Pastor told us to greet the person next to us, behind us or in front of us that we haven't greeted yet and he greeted everyone around me, except me! Talk about being snubbed!!!

Should I confront him or should I just leave it and accept that he is a jerk and I don't deserve a guy like that in my life even as a friend!! I mean he started everything!! If he didn't want to be friends with me why did he go out his way to chat to me and stuff. He even came to my birthday party in September and remembered my birthday which is a huge shock because he isn't into birthdays and is so forgetful that if you look up forgetfulness in the dictionary, you would find his picture! Two weeks later this started!! What do I do?

Sorry about the length but I just want to make sure you know exactly what I'm trying to say.