Post by tygerarmy on Sept 3, 2009 21:17:07 GMT -5
I got on the Bus to take me over the bridge from SI to Brooklyn.
While walking to the back to take a seat this chick about my age maybe a year or two older (I'm 22)glances up at me. I don't think much of it I am in uniform and people look at me all the time 'cause of that. When I sat down she glanced at me looked at the floor, repeated several times in a short time. Now I'm not that confident in myself so I thought it was cool. She then stares at the ground the whole trip over the bridge. So right when I convinced myself I was wrong about being checked out she slid over introduced herself and handed me a business card. I was like Damn! she moves fast, then I was like damn..
Fundie: I was praying for you. Would you like to go to church with me tonight?
Me: Uh, I'm going to meet friends at Union Square.
Fundie: Do you go to church?
Me: No, I don't believe in the church anymore.
Fundie: You were raised Christian?
Me: Yes
Fundie: Do you read the Bible?
Me: Yes.
Fundie: You should come to my church sometime? She then blessed me and told me I should go to her church with her for the rest of the ride.
On the Card I was given
A website which is just a Sign Up for their Email.
devotional.davidwilkersonglobal.org/
example email
Anyone else ever been hit on by a Fundie?
While walking to the back to take a seat this chick about my age maybe a year or two older (I'm 22)glances up at me. I don't think much of it I am in uniform and people look at me all the time 'cause of that. When I sat down she glanced at me looked at the floor, repeated several times in a short time. Now I'm not that confident in myself so I thought it was cool. She then stares at the ground the whole trip over the bridge. So right when I convinced myself I was wrong about being checked out she slid over introduced herself and handed me a business card. I was like Damn! she moves fast, then I was like damn..
Fundie: I was praying for you. Would you like to go to church with me tonight?
Me: Uh, I'm going to meet friends at Union Square.
Fundie: Do you go to church?
Me: No, I don't believe in the church anymore.
Fundie: You were raised Christian?
Me: Yes
Fundie: Do you read the Bible?
Me: Yes.
Fundie: You should come to my church sometime? She then blessed me and told me I should go to her church with her for the rest of the ride.
On the Card I was given
A website which is just a Sign Up for their Email.
devotional.davidwilkersonglobal.org/
example email
“By their faith…the elders obtained a good report” (Hebrews 11:2).
The Greek word for “obtained” here means “to bear witness, to become a testimony.” Our ancestors in the Lord had a settled, unwavering, anchored faith and it became a testimony to God’s faithfulness in troubled times.
First, they had a witness within that God was pleased with them. They had trusted him through floods, mockery, bonds, imprisonment, torture, warfare, lions’ dens, fire. And after it all, they knew the joy of the Lord smiling at them and saying, “Well done! You believed and trusted me.”
“Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). Whenever we hold our faith position through hard times, we have the same affirmation from the Holy Spirit: “Well done. You are God’s testimony.”
When I can rest through storms, when I have cast every burden on Christ and I hold my faith position, then I have obtained a “good report.” I am becoming a beacon of hope to those around me. Those who watch my life at home, at work and on my block may not respond openly. But they will know there is hope and redemption available to them. They can look at me in my hour of crisis and say, “There is hope! There stands someone who has not lost faith in God. There is a fighter who will not quit. He trusts his God!”
As calamities increase, and the world falls into great distress, the believer’s response must be a testimony of unwavering faith. We have the Holy Spirit abiding in us, and we have the Bible, the fully revealed Word of God. We cannot boast in our own flesh, but we can lean on His Word.
Over the years, I have gone out fully armed, determining, “I will set my heart and I will not fear. I will not listen to the doubts and fears of my flesh. I won’t waver and I won’t turn back. I will not pout, fret or wallow in self-pity.” Yet, often unbelief robbed me of victory.
I still have so much to learn about “setting my faith.” But I have tasted the victory that comes when I trust the Lord in all things, when I purposefully lay all my burdens on Christ and go my way at rest.
The Greek word for “obtained” here means “to bear witness, to become a testimony.” Our ancestors in the Lord had a settled, unwavering, anchored faith and it became a testimony to God’s faithfulness in troubled times.
First, they had a witness within that God was pleased with them. They had trusted him through floods, mockery, bonds, imprisonment, torture, warfare, lions’ dens, fire. And after it all, they knew the joy of the Lord smiling at them and saying, “Well done! You believed and trusted me.”
“Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). Whenever we hold our faith position through hard times, we have the same affirmation from the Holy Spirit: “Well done. You are God’s testimony.”
When I can rest through storms, when I have cast every burden on Christ and I hold my faith position, then I have obtained a “good report.” I am becoming a beacon of hope to those around me. Those who watch my life at home, at work and on my block may not respond openly. But they will know there is hope and redemption available to them. They can look at me in my hour of crisis and say, “There is hope! There stands someone who has not lost faith in God. There is a fighter who will not quit. He trusts his God!”
As calamities increase, and the world falls into great distress, the believer’s response must be a testimony of unwavering faith. We have the Holy Spirit abiding in us, and we have the Bible, the fully revealed Word of God. We cannot boast in our own flesh, but we can lean on His Word.
Over the years, I have gone out fully armed, determining, “I will set my heart and I will not fear. I will not listen to the doubts and fears of my flesh. I won’t waver and I won’t turn back. I will not pout, fret or wallow in self-pity.” Yet, often unbelief robbed me of victory.
I still have so much to learn about “setting my faith.” But I have tasted the victory that comes when I trust the Lord in all things, when I purposefully lay all my burdens on Christ and go my way at rest.
Anyone else ever been hit on by a Fundie?