R and I are the same age, and we were often classmates in primary and secondary school. When I first started going to church, we were in the same Bible Study group. We were even baptised on the same day.
She was, it seemed, the perfect “church girl”. A talented singer with a vivacious personality. By contrast, I struggled to fit in despite my best attempts.
“You watch wrestling? Why?”
It’s a question I’ve been asked a lot, in tones ranging from confused to disdainful. And I get it.
When I first became a Christian, I didn’t like my home church very much. Even though it was a doctrinally correct church and I essentially grew up in it, I felt like I didn’t really fit in.
In this modern day and age of mixed signals between members of the opposite sex, how can we cultivate healthy intergender friendship?
I shouldn’t be here.
If we lived in a world where Jesus Christ didn’t exist, I would be just another statistic among the world’s teenage suicides. A quiet sufferer who one day decided she had enough and ended it all.
It took a long time before I recognised my addiction for what it was, and even longer before I could consider myself an addict.
I thought I was just someone who liked to read a lot.
We are called to stand up for Jesus’s name, and we most certainly should. But if we choose to do so without knowing who or what we’re challenging, we’ve lost the battle before it even begins.
So how do we as Christians deal when faced with un-Christian media? Here are four do’s to get us started.
One evening, as an introductory question to our Bible study session, our happily married leader asked the singles in our group to share why we were still single.