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Date: 16 January 2010 11:14:00
Life continues to generate it’s soap opera, all be it a soap opera that most of the British public wouldn’t understand. While one of the situations that I referred to in this post, is quieter, the other continues to cause me interest. I now have to work out what I think about the concept of church discipline. Said friend who until recently would have been described at a very conservative Christian, (so you can guess what her home church is like,) has started dating a non-Christian, it has all become very serious very quickly (she is planning to move in with him as soon as she can.) It has now got to the stage that she has had a letter (she refused to meet up with the pastor, or answer the phone to him) which I guess could be described as a letter of church discipline. While in theory I know where they are coming from, and there is a lot of truth in what they are saying, how they are saying it is only making her more determined. How do I walk the tricky path of pointing out that what she is doing is not wise, without losing the friendship? (It’s unwise both from a spiritual point of view, from a practical point of view, she had only be dating him for 5 weeks, in which they had split up three times when she announced that they were going to live together, and also I worry that she will look back and regret how much she is changing from him.)
Role on my holiday, a week where no one will be able to contact me!