Correct. I am still working on it and I definitely am trying my best as I have more recently come back to the faith. After I woke up I lost faith in god for a long time as I woke up in my late teens. I wasn’t mature enough to handle it all that young.
For me I have worked on not popping off on people and showing more grace. I am more conscious of it though now for sure now that I pray daily, read the Bible/theology books and go to church. Occasionally a “god damn it!” slips when I mess up at work or whatever but I think about that sin now. Whereas before I wouldn’t think about it at all.
But yeah if we want to take our country back we need to be more public about our faith even if it is as simple as saying grace at a restaurant.
Bully for you! I returned to Jesus late in life, having been a confirmed atheist for 40 years. (For 40 years I wandered in the wilderness. The similarity is not lost on me.) When I was baptized, I simply stopped with the casual cursing that was the norm at a mostly-male workplace. Cold turkey. I will sometimes launch on a good one if I am sufficiently infuriated by modern times and "boobism," but I try to reach for the British upper-class invective. However, when it comes to robot calls, I offer no mercy. But that's between me and the electrons.
I do say grace at a restaurant. Usually, it is of note to no one. But I have schooled myself to be indifferent to popular attitudes when somebody asks me a question about a current topic. I absolutely loathe walking on eggshells. I won't do it. That doesn't mean I go around stomping, but I don't pussy-foot. Without going into a story, I learned an interesting and useful thing: As long as you are pleasant and engaging, you can deliver even disappointing news to someone and they will take it well.
We have weak church leaders across all denominations. And Christians have been psyoped into separating their faith from their politics.
But again it starts with us ground up. Talk to your pastors and priests about these issues.
Not to mention separating their faith from their choices and actions generally, and accommodating themselves to atheistic secularism.
Correct. I am still working on it and I definitely am trying my best as I have more recently come back to the faith. After I woke up I lost faith in god for a long time as I woke up in my late teens. I wasn’t mature enough to handle it all that young.
For me I have worked on not popping off on people and showing more grace. I am more conscious of it though now for sure now that I pray daily, read the Bible/theology books and go to church. Occasionally a “god damn it!” slips when I mess up at work or whatever but I think about that sin now. Whereas before I wouldn’t think about it at all.
But yeah if we want to take our country back we need to be more public about our faith even if it is as simple as saying grace at a restaurant.
Bully for you! I returned to Jesus late in life, having been a confirmed atheist for 40 years. (For 40 years I wandered in the wilderness. The similarity is not lost on me.) When I was baptized, I simply stopped with the casual cursing that was the norm at a mostly-male workplace. Cold turkey. I will sometimes launch on a good one if I am sufficiently infuriated by modern times and "boobism," but I try to reach for the British upper-class invective. However, when it comes to robot calls, I offer no mercy. But that's between me and the electrons.
I do say grace at a restaurant. Usually, it is of note to no one. But I have schooled myself to be indifferent to popular attitudes when somebody asks me a question about a current topic. I absolutely loathe walking on eggshells. I won't do it. That doesn't mean I go around stomping, but I don't pussy-foot. Without going into a story, I learned an interesting and useful thing: As long as you are pleasant and engaging, you can deliver even disappointing news to someone and they will take it well.