hi, I am a young woman of 30, I live with my parents I am single with no children and we are born again Christians and moderate democrats/ independents. My family believes we should imitate the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, as CHristians we follow Jesus Christ and Jehovah God his father not preachers or churches or books written by evangelists, we follow the Bible and words of Jesus in the Bible. Problem is, right-wing fundamentalism and right wing Republican politics claim to be Christian, yet they act more like the pharisees that killed Jesus. THey are unforgiving and hypocritical, do the same bad things they tell other people not to do, are greedy and selfish and have no mercy love or compassion for the poor and oppressed.
We used to go to a baptist church, but there was a mean old man in my parents Sunday school class that said something about killing bortionist, abortion dotors and attacking abortion clinics. That is hypocrisy, that is not proper loving CHristian behavior, to behave violently. The whole idea against abortion is to preserve life, so you are murdering an adult to save an unborn baby's life? And this so-called "baby" is still just a fetus, not even fully formed? How wrong is that!
I have been to many churches, and it seems the ones that claim to be "super Christian," are Republican in their politics, they like to force Republican propaganda on their church members, and do not welcome democrats, although they may tolerate independents. I am sick of hearing democrats being insulted mocked trashed and criticized in church. I have been to a young modern church where I live in FLorida, mostly filled with northerners, and they see themselves as very passionate for Christ, yet they have loose morals, the dress code, or lack of a dress code was shocking, people dressed like for the beach, the pastor himself wore a t-shirt and cargo pants, bermuda shorts and capris to the pulpit to preach on Sunday morning. And my dad was greatly offended by the sight of a young woman working in the church's office dressed sleezy, in a revealing top, I think it was like a tank top, it revealed cleavage, shoulders and back and perhaps midriff from the way he described it. He said if the girl claimed to be a Christian she should not advertise in that way, and it was much, much worse for someone dressed like that to be working in the office of a church! I'm so glad I am different from other young people and my parents taught me values and to dress and behave better. ANd then they go and do these missions all around the world, yet they have problems with democrats, and would not accept my family. WHat if someone from a conservative Muslim background came to that church seeking about Christ and saw the girls and women dressed so provocatively and things all American Christian women are loose tramps?
Many of the other churches are filled with old people, but then the ones for young people are not all that great, my parents are old, they couldn't stand the young church we had to drive a while to. My dad hates modern music, he hated the pop hiphop music at this church, he wanted to leave right away because he couldn't stand the obnoxious praise music that was loud and rowdy, and the sight of the preacher was a major disapointment. He looked like some sort of tacky tv commercial salesman, had his hair spiked up and was wearing some kind of sparkly reflective jacket and gave a stupid sermon about the ladder of success., hardly mentioning the bible, I think he mentioned the Genesis story of Joseph.
ANyway, my dad has been working hard, he is old enough to retire but may keep working part time a few more years. He had a 3-day weekend and didn't go to church with mom andme this Sunday, today. It has been a long time, really long time since we have last been to a church. But we have not been ignoring God. We pray and read the Bible, read Christian/ Biblical devotion books and watch Dr. Charles Stanley's sermon on TV sunday morning. I try to do good and not sin. We listen to Christian and gospel music.
Mom and I went to a very different church. I think it was Unitarian. It was called Unity church of peace. They were sort of new age, but in a good way. The people were very friendly and welcoming. There were old people and middle age, one or two young couple and I think I only saw one child. But then again, my town is filled with old people, all of Florida is, there are so many retirees who come here to retire. Please don't misunderstand, I don't have a problem with old people, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the elderly, they are very nice people full of the wisdom that comes with the expereince of living life for a long time and surviving. A lot of times older people can be nicer than young people because they know better. Anyway, I was tempted to have coffee and cake, but I'm on a diet. I could have coffee, but I already had a cup at home. In the worship they had a lady minister, she was nice.
I liked her sermon about the innocence of a child, she talked about how children do not judge people, how children love everyone and do not hate. She read a poem and quoted what Jesus said about the kingdom of heaven being found in the heart of an innocent child. We spoke of god as loving and good and full of peace. THey believe that people are naturally good, and that goodness must be nurttured and brought out. A lady sang songs with a guitar, a spiritual version of "Fields of Gold", and "I believe in angels." We held hands and prayed for peace, and there were pictures of children on a projector, the last one was very beautiful, a little girl with a wreath of flowers on her head.
Yeah, it is new age, but it's christian new age, in a good way. They did not have invitations to get saved or talk about sin and Jesus' blood saving us from our sin, the need for redemption. But the other churches I went to had that and they were not right, they would not accept democrats and were like fanatics. Republicans have nothing to do with Christianity, except to take advantage, lie and deceive Christians as the "Christian political party." I think this church knows to stay out of politics
We used to go to a baptist church, but there was a mean old man in my parents Sunday school class that said something about killing bortionist, abortion dotors and attacking abortion clinics. That is hypocrisy, that is not proper loving CHristian behavior, to behave violently. The whole idea against abortion is to preserve life, so you are murdering an adult to save an unborn baby's life? And this so-called "baby" is still just a fetus, not even fully formed? How wrong is that!
I have been to many churches, and it seems the ones that claim to be "super Christian," are Republican in their politics, they like to force Republican propaganda on their church members, and do not welcome democrats, although they may tolerate independents. I am sick of hearing democrats being insulted mocked trashed and criticized in church. I have been to a young modern church where I live in FLorida, mostly filled with northerners, and they see themselves as very passionate for Christ, yet they have loose morals, the dress code, or lack of a dress code was shocking, people dressed like for the beach, the pastor himself wore a t-shirt and cargo pants, bermuda shorts and capris to the pulpit to preach on Sunday morning. And my dad was greatly offended by the sight of a young woman working in the church's office dressed sleezy, in a revealing top, I think it was like a tank top, it revealed cleavage, shoulders and back and perhaps midriff from the way he described it. He said if the girl claimed to be a Christian she should not advertise in that way, and it was much, much worse for someone dressed like that to be working in the office of a church! I'm so glad I am different from other young people and my parents taught me values and to dress and behave better. ANd then they go and do these missions all around the world, yet they have problems with democrats, and would not accept my family. WHat if someone from a conservative Muslim background came to that church seeking about Christ and saw the girls and women dressed so provocatively and things all American Christian women are loose tramps?
Many of the other churches are filled with old people, but then the ones for young people are not all that great, my parents are old, they couldn't stand the young church we had to drive a while to. My dad hates modern music, he hated the pop hiphop music at this church, he wanted to leave right away because he couldn't stand the obnoxious praise music that was loud and rowdy, and the sight of the preacher was a major disapointment. He looked like some sort of tacky tv commercial salesman, had his hair spiked up and was wearing some kind of sparkly reflective jacket and gave a stupid sermon about the ladder of success., hardly mentioning the bible, I think he mentioned the Genesis story of Joseph.
ANyway, my dad has been working hard, he is old enough to retire but may keep working part time a few more years. He had a 3-day weekend and didn't go to church with mom andme this Sunday, today. It has been a long time, really long time since we have last been to a church. But we have not been ignoring God. We pray and read the Bible, read Christian/ Biblical devotion books and watch Dr. Charles Stanley's sermon on TV sunday morning. I try to do good and not sin. We listen to Christian and gospel music.
Mom and I went to a very different church. I think it was Unitarian. It was called Unity church of peace. They were sort of new age, but in a good way. The people were very friendly and welcoming. There were old people and middle age, one or two young couple and I think I only saw one child. But then again, my town is filled with old people, all of Florida is, there are so many retirees who come here to retire. Please don't misunderstand, I don't have a problem with old people, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the elderly, they are very nice people full of the wisdom that comes with the expereince of living life for a long time and surviving. A lot of times older people can be nicer than young people because they know better. Anyway, I was tempted to have coffee and cake, but I'm on a diet. I could have coffee, but I already had a cup at home. In the worship they had a lady minister, she was nice.
I liked her sermon about the innocence of a child, she talked about how children do not judge people, how children love everyone and do not hate. She read a poem and quoted what Jesus said about the kingdom of heaven being found in the heart of an innocent child. We spoke of god as loving and good and full of peace. THey believe that people are naturally good, and that goodness must be nurttured and brought out. A lady sang songs with a guitar, a spiritual version of "Fields of Gold", and "I believe in angels." We held hands and prayed for peace, and there were pictures of children on a projector, the last one was very beautiful, a little girl with a wreath of flowers on her head.
Yeah, it is new age, but it's christian new age, in a good way. They did not have invitations to get saved or talk about sin and Jesus' blood saving us from our sin, the need for redemption. But the other churches I went to had that and they were not right, they would not accept democrats and were like fanatics. Republicans have nothing to do with Christianity, except to take advantage, lie and deceive Christians as the "Christian political party." I think this church knows to stay out of politics
