Lifelong_sinner
Well-Known Member
Hello to you the reader,
Church is a funny word.
Here recently have been going more often to church.
The preaching or if they teach verse by verse is okay at best. Having investigated and searched the Bible for myself has helped me greatly understand what is suppose to be done, along with a teacher who helped me along to as God helped me grow in Christ.
People who are of Christ and live by the spirit, even if they are married, are seemingly alone though having God their with them, by the Holy Spirit and the spirit of Christ being within them.
It’s called suffering… there are three Greek words for this so you may desire to look up them and see which fits in the context of scripture when it talks about it.
The Christian life is a difficult one because it requires you to self sacrifice yourself of your desires and passion upon the cross with Christ and to be buried with him in his death. Then be raised again to new life. Not everyone may desire that type of life and have a hard time transitioning from the flesh to the spirit.
To expect people to rely on you, or need you, and to help you; seems illogical at least to my understanding because as a 30 year old male, who lives alone the only help I may get is from my mother. (Subsequently there are few that may help you).
There are people I see and met through life and you let them know your interest of God and Jesus Christ and you try to be interested in their interest but all you personally have to offer is Jesus Christ and God and prayer and if they would like to read scripture, and learn about things of God.
It seems that people may avoid you like the plague. Being someone who likes to go to church only to see the people when comes to preaching or the teaching, I don’t care what they may say at all, it was good enough for them to share it; and that I’m thankful for.
I like honesty, and upfrontness. I don’t care about the extra curricular activities, I just desire to hear the word of God presented and taught… and I’ve started my own YouTube just to do it in an organized manner.
I don’t need to hear Jesus died for me and rose again for me anymore. I need to hear about Jesus and a verse by verse the in turns has an effect by the hearing of scripture and leading people to be more filled by the spirit.
People still waiting on Jesus to come back, as a believer I believe he done came back: you mention that to someone at church they will pass along the message and people may dislike you or something.
As one person had mentioned people are people, he is right. People are people with freewill and they decided how they need to handle their life and it will always be between them and God, and always boils down to having faith and ultimately love for God and others.
It’s best not to judge others but instead judge ourselves in how one conducts his or her life either in or out of the material building.
In love,
Matthew Gallagher
Jesus hasnt come back yet.