
who has been in a Christian ministry for a long time who told me that “you can not be alone with an opposite sex in a car, or in a house, or been seen as a couple which all are sin”. I often say to her, “why don’t you come over tonight, we can hang out in my house and watch TV?” It bothers her so bad when I say this to her……. I am single and that is how single people hang out. Its not like I am asking her to have sex with me or we are going to do anything like that AT ALL~!
To Muldah, this is true and I am respecting my friend. I am a new Christian myself and learning. The Bible also say something like… “God thought it is NOT good for man to be alone, so he made woman.”
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A Christian life is a highly disciplined life of self-denial and self-sacrifice. You cannot compare it to a non-Christian lifestyle. Most cannot handle it.
She is devoting her life to God. That is admirable. This life is not all about marrying and having children. It is rather all about loving and serving God.
Understand that she is the perfect scriptural model of a woman that puts God first in all things. But never try to change her. She is happy.
1Cr 7:32 In everything you do, I want you to be free from the concerns of this life. An unmarried man can spend his time doing the Lord’s work and thinking how to please him.
1Cr 7:33 But a married man can’t do that so well. He has to think about his earthly responsibilities and how to please his wife.
1Cr 7:34 His interests are divided. In the same way, a woman who is no longer married or has never been married can be more devoted to the Lord in body and in spirit, while the married woman must be concerned about her earthly responsibilities and how to please her husband.
1Cr 7:35 I am saying this for your benefit, not to place restrictions on you. I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best, with as few distractions as possible.
Wow … okay, that’s awesome that she has strong opinions and is willing to stand by them, but it seems over the top to me. I’m a Christian and while I haven’t been on a date and am 27 years old … I’d imagine you’d still do a lot of the same things – i.e. dinner and a movie, going to the park, taking a drive … whatever.
I think that you should definetly tell her if she is still uncomfortable with the thought of coming to your house to watch a movie go to the movie theatre, go for coffee. You guys will get warmed up and get to know eachother better, this way it is better for her because she is obviously scared to hang out at your house.
If this doesn’t work then don’t ask her to come over anymore, obviously she doesn’t wanna come over, there are other people you can hang with
- hopefully this will work for you.
To be honest, I don’t think people of the opposite sex can be friends. Maybe when they’re kids, but as you get older, it’s just too much temptation. Once you end up with your spouse, neither spouse is going to want the other to hang out with people of the opposite sex…..of couse, if you want to go on a date with someone and you’re single that’s another story…I went on dates before I was married. How else do you pick your spouse unless it’s arranged by your parents?
There’s a difference between being Christian and being a bible thumper. Likewise there is a difference between being a bible thumper and being omish.
I’m very Christian and this sounds weird. She sounds like the kinda “Christian” who stubs her toe and swears and begs god for forgiveness. or the one that thinks because she’s Christian she doesn’t sin anymore.
She needs to read the bible, or get a reality check. Life should not be lived in fear of stubbing our toes on Gods furniture.
She probably leads a sheltered life. Christians date no different than anyone else. we date, we kiss, we smile, we swear, we f&*k, we do it all. Except we do it with FAITH lol