Ok, so I'm a little old fashioned. I know it. I don't mind the 50's housewife thing, except that I'm also working. The Proverbs 31 woman is better anyway. There are traditions in my life that don't need to be there, but it's part of the old fashioned way. However, I have made changes as time has forced us to. My son owns a tablet. It's great for school, and he likes to write, but boy is it a distraction. The kids started with their own rooms and now share because they want to, even though we planned on them each getting a room which I did not get until I was 9. I make my own spaghetti sauce and bake from scratch, but sometimes a box mix goes a looooong way, and frozen pizzas are the bomb.com.
When it comes to my God, though, there is no keeping up with the times. About 8 months ago I had an interesting conversation with a young woman at "church." (You know how I feel about that word in that way by now.) So this young was getting married. She said she was waiting to talk to our pastor because she wanted him to do the service. So I looked at her and said, "Are you and your fiance living together?" I had a feeling from Facebook I knew the answer. I have also never met this fiance, which means they don't attend our "church" together. I also never saw her when she wasn't working. She answered me, "Yeah." And I told her, "He won't marry you if you live together." She didn't quite understand. "Why? That's so stupid. Why won't the church keep up with the times?" I'm sorry, what? Why won't the church keep up with the times? Oh, honey, the church has never kept with the times. If it did, we wouldn't have a church body. There would be no difference between world and church. Jesus never kept with the times. If we kept with the times, than the church in AD 1 would be sleeping with women at the temple gates instead of meeting in the upper rooms of believers and surrendering to the Holy Spirit. When did "the times" become the dictator of what we should do as Christians? Please, explain this one for me. We can look at history and continually see how the Holy Spirit was taken out of "church" doings and became outrageously stupid acts. Can anyone say "Crusades"? What about that Westboro "Baptist" Church from Kansas. We love them, right? Morons. But wars are what we do in this time! Demonstrations and picket signs are the things of the times! Peter, Paul, James, Precilla, John, Mary, Timothy, and so many more could have been doing ritualistic sacrifices because it was what was popular. They could have been giving up on the whole Jesus thing, because it wasn't what those around him were doing. And where would we all be? Who would God have had to raise up after them? It's easy to live with the boyfriend or fiance. It saves money. It saves travel time for date nights. But it ruins what God has for you. Sure, you can have a loving marriage full of fun, but you miss out on so much more. You enter into intimate relationships that you might just not be ready for. It's easy to do a lot of things that old school thinking within the church would be against. But let's first take a look at why people of the church have taken a stance against those things. See what the Bible says about those things that are conflicting with you. Find out why we hold on to those things that keep us from keeping up with the times. God doesn't live in time. We won't be setting alarm clocks in heaven. Don't limit God to such a thing.
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