pressure pressure pressure!!
So obviously, I've moved to a new area, one of the things I'm trying to do is find a new church. On Sunday I went along to a church in the village. Full of really friendly people, but no one my age. Also, the service didn't have much meat to it - it was only 45 minutes long!! But anyway, the people were so friendly, but ever-so-slightly desparate for a new person in their church. So I was given phone numbers, invited to things and told that I could help with music and their youth groups if I wanted (my fault for telling them I'd done that in my old church).
This whole finding a new church thing is actually laden with lots of feelings of guilt! I was invited back for lunch with a family (which I think is fantastic - not many churches in England show that level of welcome to people), and there was another couple there too who go to a church in one of the towns nearby that I'd heard good things about and wanted to try, but the family who'd invited me for lunch were like 'no, we saw her first'!!!!!! I feel so bad! But I shouldn't feel bad - I want to be somewhere where I will meet people my age, but I NEED to be somewhere where I feel God's word is preached in a challenging way, and this place really didn't provide that for me. But then I've just come from a church that was finding things hard and was desparate for new people, so I really know where these people are coming from.
Anyway, what sparked all this off is that this morning I got a phone call from one of the ladies at this church to invite me to a coffee morning this morning (only of course she rang at 9.30, and because it's the holidays, I kind of wasn't quite up and doing yet!!!) - and I don't know whether to go because I don't really want to encourage them. But that's so stupid of me!!!
It was never this hard when it was just up to Mum and Dad to find somewhere, all I had to do was turn up.............!
Why does the time say 2.36am when it's 10.54????
This whole finding a new church thing is actually laden with lots of feelings of guilt! I was invited back for lunch with a family (which I think is fantastic - not many churches in England show that level of welcome to people), and there was another couple there too who go to a church in one of the towns nearby that I'd heard good things about and wanted to try, but the family who'd invited me for lunch were like 'no, we saw her first'!!!!!! I feel so bad! But I shouldn't feel bad - I want to be somewhere where I will meet people my age, but I NEED to be somewhere where I feel God's word is preached in a challenging way, and this place really didn't provide that for me. But then I've just come from a church that was finding things hard and was desparate for new people, so I really know where these people are coming from.
Anyway, what sparked all this off is that this morning I got a phone call from one of the ladies at this church to invite me to a coffee morning this morning (only of course she rang at 9.30, and because it's the holidays, I kind of wasn't quite up and doing yet!!!) - and I don't know whether to go because I don't really want to encourage them. But that's so stupid of me!!!
It was never this hard when it was just up to Mum and Dad to find somewhere, all I had to do was turn up.............!
Why does the time say 2.36am when it's 10.54????
posted by RuthyD at 10:36 am
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