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We want to invite everyone to church, but...
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HatedByAll
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I would not think twice about it. They could sit right in front or behind me and I would not know the difference.
Would that be that we have the same disability - that is I am unable to smell (or taste)
Now, my wife makes up for my disability - she would be able to smell him 100 feet away!
How do you have 43 replies and no responses?
That is why churches should be equipped to help. Offer them a meal, a shower, some clean clothes, and invite them in.
I don't do smells very well anymore. Nothing used to bother me.I worked a shooting where the brain was splattered all over the ceiling and dripping. After that smell, it changed me forever.
because I am not perfect - like you
If you left NY, you would start improving.
Not if the Lord wants me to remain here -
and as of now, he has not directed me to move!
As a good Baptist, how does God talk to you? Nothing in The Bible about where He wants you.
I have some Charismatic leanings myself.
HatedByAll
Active Member
Yes, I have had total anosmia ever since just before Hurricane Katrina.
Lodic
Well-Known Member
This makes me think of "In His Steps", a book by Charles Sheldon. A homeless man is shunned by a church. Ultimately, the pastor feels led to challenge his congregation to commit a full year to asking "what would Jesus do?". This has been made into a movie at least a couple of times, but the book is well worth reading. Lots of conviction about how we treat others.
I was born that way - over a decade in the Army, never complained about Army chow
excellent post - not only hygiene - but other things that we might find acceptable.
1) How about 2 or 3 motorcycle guys coming in with leather jackets, ect
2) How about a teen wearing green hair and her boyfriend wearing dark blue fingernails....
3) How about a person brings in a plate of Kentucky Fried Chicken.....
4) what can you add to this - do you have any actual examples....
Lodic
Well-Known Member
I used to know a guy who liked to come in barefoot and sit on the floor at the back. I must admit that I thought he was weird, so I never went up to him. Someone must have, though. He attended for most of that Summer.
A teenage son of one of my friends visited our weekly Bible Study a couple of months back. He didn't look weird, but he definitely had an axe to grind. He kept trying to get us off topic (Adam & Eve and the Serpent), so several of us tried to point him to understand the plan of salvation. In the end, we just felt like he had done nothing more than disrupt our study. Maybe something stuck with him, but we haven't seen him since that night.
Lodic,
I am glad you brought that up. On one hand that is a totally different subject - but I can see the similarities. - but I have just started a new thread on that
click here ....
I’m a nurse, I gave up caring how people smelled a long time ago.
I sit next to him without batting an eye.
When I got home I’d probably take a shower and toss my clothes in the wash to make sure I didn’t carry any bugs home.
Now I keep my distance from that lady that loudly sings like a toad each Sunday.
Rob
I sit next to him without batting an eye.
When I got home I’d probably take a shower and toss my clothes in the wash to make sure I didn’t carry any bugs home.
Now I keep my distance from that lady that loudly sings like a toad each Sunday.
Rob
We have a Christian motorcycle group that visits our church regularly.
The leader recently passed away and services were held at our church.
Green hair, tattoos, strange hats, weird, distracting clothing… why do they always sit front and center?
…and why does one of them always get up to go to the bathroom mid-service?
Our people are very accepting of the strange ones. We have had some evangelical success stories that have over come our queeziness.
We served snacks and drink pre-Covid.
We’re only now beginning to bring them back.
Autistic children sometimes present a problem when they act out (our lead pastor had two adoptive children with autism). We provide a special area to listen to the service for parents with disruptive children.
Rob