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A story of seeking love within your church.
We all thought it would be simple. We were saved. We were in a place of people who were saved. We knew it was simple. Wait on God. We'll find that person God has for us.
2009. Everyone's turning on each other. Everyone's engaged within a 40 day time frame and the summers got nothing but weddings and honeymoons. Everyone's getting married and leaving the young adults group. A true story.
They're fighting each other over wedding dates, who's getting married in the best church, the best honeymoon, who and who's not getting invited. I stand with a soda in hand. Aren't you upset, I'm asked? "I'm only a guru, and besides it's not my place to self-defeat if it didn't work out with three other women over the course of two years. It's also not my fault, every woman here is either dating, engaged, married or somone I've already dated. I'm not gonna be hard on myself and think myself as a loser, was there from 2005-07 and I'm not going back."
We had all come to church, seeking something else besides God, a spouse. Once most of them found it, suddenly they had no interest in the young adult ministry. It was like a worldy club, meet someone, get married, salvage a few friends and bail. Everyone turns on each other in the end.
So all the singles consider the others helpless losers themselves. This is my fight. This is why I dawned "ChristianGuru" to unlock everyone's lowly self-perception and help individuals rise out of silly cliches and make a stand of self-confidence and realization for themselves.
It took me from Grade 7 to Grade 12 to just say hello to the prettiest girl in church, that I liked. It took from my 1st church service to my 3rd to do it now. *She wasn't at the 1st service I went too.
2010. New Church. Young Adults Group. I see a pretty woman at church, only a few years younger. I approach her, invite her out, she declines, socially paranoid at life. She's been there forever. Everyone at this new church act like they're in 3rd grade. The guys on one side of the room, the women on the other. Are you kidding me? She's way too focused on things, no time to relax and enjoy life.
A few weeks later, the most gorgeous women in church, I sit down next to her at my 3rd service. We hit it off during all of our 30 seconds of greeting time. I wish her farewell following service. My friend and his girlfriend shocked at my confidence level. As pretty as she was, I left the conversation terrified. She was like 30, gorgeous and single. That's not what terrified me. It was the fact that she had been at this tiny little beanpot church since she was in elementary school. She had never transceneded herself, stepped outside the box a little bit and sought elsewhere.
2010. The big city in the state below ours. I get a bunch of friends together and we go to an outdoor dancing event. I get the numbers of two girls. It makes me stop. I just pulled this off like a literal expert. It wasn't tough. They're weren't too serious about life. This was like the end of the movie. Simplicity was the solution.
We as christians push our minds to the limit over finding the one, when we live in a world of great people all over the place. In some ways, it's almost like seeking people at church is our curse. We only focus on other Christians. It seems when we open up ourselves to non-believers outside of church, we open ourselves to opportunities to witness. *Not in all circumstances or situations.
My friend and I walk away after I got the second woman's number and says...
"You probably shouldn't missionary date.."
I reply, "You know, I wouldn't but it seems like every woman at our church, I either find unattractive, unappealing or way too out of range in the way they live their Christian lives. That girl I dated two years ago, turned out to a be potentially lesbian and Jonathan's probably will too, after she left him, despite all those Christian dating and marriage books they read. That girl I liked from 7th-12th grade, married some rich doctor, I'm not even sure if he's even saved... she also defriended me on facebook."
We continue walking...
CU end credit music.
We all thought it would be simple. We were saved. We were in a place of people who were saved. We knew it was simple. Wait on God. We'll find that person God has for us.
2009. Everyone's turning on each other. Everyone's engaged within a 40 day time frame and the summers got nothing but weddings and honeymoons. Everyone's getting married and leaving the young adults group. A true story.
They're fighting each other over wedding dates, who's getting married in the best church, the best honeymoon, who and who's not getting invited. I stand with a soda in hand. Aren't you upset, I'm asked? "I'm only a guru, and besides it's not my place to self-defeat if it didn't work out with three other women over the course of two years. It's also not my fault, every woman here is either dating, engaged, married or somone I've already dated. I'm not gonna be hard on myself and think myself as a loser, was there from 2005-07 and I'm not going back."
We had all come to church, seeking something else besides God, a spouse. Once most of them found it, suddenly they had no interest in the young adult ministry. It was like a worldy club, meet someone, get married, salvage a few friends and bail. Everyone turns on each other in the end.
So all the singles consider the others helpless losers themselves. This is my fight. This is why I dawned "ChristianGuru" to unlock everyone's lowly self-perception and help individuals rise out of silly cliches and make a stand of self-confidence and realization for themselves.
It took me from Grade 7 to Grade 12 to just say hello to the prettiest girl in church, that I liked. It took from my 1st church service to my 3rd to do it now. *She wasn't at the 1st service I went too.
2010. New Church. Young Adults Group. I see a pretty woman at church, only a few years younger. I approach her, invite her out, she declines, socially paranoid at life. She's been there forever. Everyone at this new church act like they're in 3rd grade. The guys on one side of the room, the women on the other. Are you kidding me? She's way too focused on things, no time to relax and enjoy life.
A few weeks later, the most gorgeous women in church, I sit down next to her at my 3rd service. We hit it off during all of our 30 seconds of greeting time. I wish her farewell following service. My friend and his girlfriend shocked at my confidence level. As pretty as she was, I left the conversation terrified. She was like 30, gorgeous and single. That's not what terrified me. It was the fact that she had been at this tiny little beanpot church since she was in elementary school. She had never transceneded herself, stepped outside the box a little bit and sought elsewhere.
2010. The big city in the state below ours. I get a bunch of friends together and we go to an outdoor dancing event. I get the numbers of two girls. It makes me stop. I just pulled this off like a literal expert. It wasn't tough. They're weren't too serious about life. This was like the end of the movie. Simplicity was the solution.
We as christians push our minds to the limit over finding the one, when we live in a world of great people all over the place. In some ways, it's almost like seeking people at church is our curse. We only focus on other Christians. It seems when we open up ourselves to non-believers outside of church, we open ourselves to opportunities to witness. *Not in all circumstances or situations.
My friend and I walk away after I got the second woman's number and says...
"You probably shouldn't missionary date.."
I reply, "You know, I wouldn't but it seems like every woman at our church, I either find unattractive, unappealing or way too out of range in the way they live their Christian lives. That girl I dated two years ago, turned out to a be potentially lesbian and Jonathan's probably will too, after she left him, despite all those Christian dating and marriage books they read. That girl I liked from 7th-12th grade, married some rich doctor, I'm not even sure if he's even saved... she also defriended me on facebook."
We continue walking...
CU end credit music.
