Howdy All!
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:00 pm
Hi All:
Just wanted to take a moment and introduce myself....to the extent I can. I don't want to go into a huge amount of specifics, as this might embarrass my family. I still consider them good people, if misguided.
So I'm a forty-something male living in the Lone Star State. I was baptized into the CofC at age 16I was a firm believer of all the "fire and brimstone", and that "we" were the True Church.
I was educated at a CofC college.
When I moved out of my parents house, I joined a more liberal "CofC", thinking they were all the same. What a difference. I began to think maybe the "hardline" group didn't know it all after all. Many things happened to get me there.
I met a young lady who was raised CofC too. She invited me to go to her Methodist church, where they paid her to attend (She worked in the nursery). Long story short, we celebrate out 9th anniversary next month, and we eventually joined the Methodist congregation....Our son was baptized there, which almost caused my father to have a heart attack, to see a SIX YEAR OLD (gasp) get SPRINKLED (GASP) by a WOMAN (HYPERVENTILATE).
So I no longer consider myself CofC, though I'm not a Methodist either. In fact, a lot of the Methodists are amazed by my Biblical knowledge. I still consider myself Non-Denominational, in that no one denomination "gets it completely right" in my book. I simply consider myself a follower of Christ, a flawed imitation, to be made perfect at a later date.
Just wanted to take a moment and introduce myself....to the extent I can. I don't want to go into a huge amount of specifics, as this might embarrass my family. I still consider them good people, if misguided.
So I'm a forty-something male living in the Lone Star State. I was baptized into the CofC at age 16I was a firm believer of all the "fire and brimstone", and that "we" were the True Church.
I was educated at a CofC college.
When I moved out of my parents house, I joined a more liberal "CofC", thinking they were all the same. What a difference. I began to think maybe the "hardline" group didn't know it all after all. Many things happened to get me there.
I met a young lady who was raised CofC too. She invited me to go to her Methodist church, where they paid her to attend (She worked in the nursery). Long story short, we celebrate out 9th anniversary next month, and we eventually joined the Methodist congregation....Our son was baptized there, which almost caused my father to have a heart attack, to see a SIX YEAR OLD (gasp) get SPRINKLED (GASP) by a WOMAN (HYPERVENTILATE).
So I no longer consider myself CofC, though I'm not a Methodist either. In fact, a lot of the Methodists are amazed by my Biblical knowledge. I still consider myself Non-Denominational, in that no one denomination "gets it completely right" in my book. I simply consider myself a follower of Christ, a flawed imitation, to be made perfect at a later date.