a mere housewife
Not your cup of tea
We have tried to attend two Presbyterian churches that didn't have correct address information on their websites. In the actual human running of churches, lots of inefficient things seem to happen. I would suspect they happen more in the area of violations of this nature the more diverse a church is in the way it is growing (with people who have not previously been reformed), or the more recently the church as a whole has become reformed?
I was just reading 1 Corinthians 1 and how Paul gives thanks for these believers sanctified in Christ, called to be saints together 'with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours.' I had to remind myself that he was speaking of a church he then goes on to deal with in the areas of division, sexual immorality, chaos, drunkenness at the Lord's table, and so on. So it seems reasonable if happening to walk into an assembly of believers calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ who happen to have a bulletin sporting idolatry upon the cover to shove it out of sight and give thanks for them. Perhaps any addressing I nerved myself up to of such an issue would be better received in light of that thanksgiving. I'm not sure how thankful it is to walk out on calling on the Lord Jesus Christ together with them, anymore. (At one time it would have seemed to me like the only proper course, but since that time, I've come to have much more wonder over how anyone could give thanks for me.)
I was just reading 1 Corinthians 1 and how Paul gives thanks for these believers sanctified in Christ, called to be saints together 'with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours.' I had to remind myself that he was speaking of a church he then goes on to deal with in the areas of division, sexual immorality, chaos, drunkenness at the Lord's table, and so on. So it seems reasonable if happening to walk into an assembly of believers calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ who happen to have a bulletin sporting idolatry upon the cover to shove it out of sight and give thanks for them. Perhaps any addressing I nerved myself up to of such an issue would be better received in light of that thanksgiving. I'm not sure how thankful it is to walk out on calling on the Lord Jesus Christ together with them, anymore. (At one time it would have seemed to me like the only proper course, but since that time, I've come to have much more wonder over how anyone could give thanks for me.)