/christian/ - christian

my spouse has hangups about church so we basically hold church at home

I went yesterday, it's amazing how every week the sermon always seems to help me with a problem I've been having lately.
Our Bible study group is also going over the Book of Concord, it's weird that I had never even heard of it up until now (although I hadn't been to an actual Lutheran school since 8th grade so that might be why). It's very well laid out and explains why we as the LCMS believe in what we do.

>>26723
You should try to get your spouse to go with you to church. It's good to do things at home, but you should really be worshiping God in a community.

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I sincerely hope you went to church to-day, /christian/!

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I really hope you went to church to-day, /christian/!

>>26766
I did, but i keep forgetting what the sermon was about and have to look up the stream recordings later in the week to remember. i'll post in this thread after each service so i can remember what it was about

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Did you go to church to-day, /christian/?

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>>26788
i did, it was a miserable experience
>see cute girl around my age during Bible study
>want to ask her out
>realize i haven't asked out a girl in years
>completely socially inept
>spend all of Bible study and the service trying not to freak out
>eventually start a conversation with her only because a senior member literally dragged her over to me
>make small talk for a bit with her and her dad
>...
<...
>...
>awkwardly say bye and walk away
it hit me right there how my social skills are completely nonexistant. i can't even hold a conversation for more than two minutes. i just feel completely hopeless right now.
finding a bunch of other social events in the area that i'm going to force myself to attend, liking every single breathing female on every dating app, i just need to talk to more people.
the worst part is i used to be fine talking with people, then somewhere between covid and today i just completely fell apart and i have no idea why. that's what kills me. now all my friends are getting married/engaged and i only know maybe four people in this city that i see sporadically. i feel like a hopeless loser. worst part of it was the sermon was about "husbands/wives submit to one another" which didn't help at all.

>>26789
The pandemic messed up almost everyone. Our society will never be the same again. Maybe you could try hanging out with some good Christian men and rebuild your social skills that way. But the worst thing you can do is give up, anon. Even if nobody else believes in you, I do.

>>26789
I pray you find your heart's desire, Anon. Ultimately, your relationship with Jesus Christ will far, far outstrip anything possible in this life. So at the least you can rest in that if you're Christian, Anon.

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You did go to church to-day, right /christian/?

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>>26814
Yes I did anon, yes I did

>>26789
Proverbs 30:18 - 19
"There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid."
Don't sweat it. Biblical authors also had women problems. There is also Isaac who didnt't marry until he was 40, you know.

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How was church to-day, /christian/?

>>26722 (OP) 
I didn't, I find it hard to believe in God and most of the people that go to church where I live are either black (ew) or old people which, to be frank, strike me as dickheads.

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Only a little over a week left until Christmas!

>>27022
Unless you're on Julian calendar ;-)

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Blessed First Sunday of Lent. How's everyone holding up?

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I celebrated Shabbat with fiveish

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