I Won't Be Going To His Bible Study...

Oh, I am so, so aggravated tonight.

I had really just got home and was starting dinner. The front door was open, so my little dogs could run in and out.

"Hello? Hello?"

I hear a voice and I think it's my neighbor, so I go outside. The little dogs are going wild, one is hanging on the gate (thank the Lord she didn't get over it) and there's two men outside my gate.

They want to talk about church.

Sigh, I really don't have time, I'm trying to fix dinner for my kids, but I'm polite.

Yes, I have a church. I tell him where it is. He acts surprised that I'll drive 45 miles to church. (Well, I drive that far for work, which is more important???)

Then he starts asking me about being Saved.

Yes, I was Saved in high school and yes, I've been baptized too.

He starts questioning me about how I got Saved!?!

I cut him short after a minute of this. I have no patience with someone who is trying to talk to me about going to his Bible Study, but then basically questions my Salvation.

No, I don't know if he was a member of a small evangelical church or if he was a Jehovah Witness. I didn't want to know.

I cut him short and went back inside, telling him (again) over my shoulder that I was in the middle of fixing dinner and I don't have time right now. I closed the door.

Grrrr..............

Yes, it's a good thing to go around and invite people to come to Bible Study. I probably should go to one.

But when someone starts questioning me about how I got Saved, as if my Salvation is something to be questioned, that's over the line. That's where all too many evangelicals actually drive people away from the church. (Yes, yes, I go to a charismatic evangelical church.)

My people, when you start pushing your version of theology onto a fellow Christian, questioning their very Salvation, you're not helping the church!

Jesus drew people in. He didn't throw a rope around their necks and drag them!! He let them decide their own fates and when the time was ripe, they were there for the Harvest.

Seed, time, harvest.

Dude could have seen I really didn't have time, told me about his Bible Study, given me a flyer and went on his way. Instead, he tried to involve me in a discussion about his theology and basically questioning my Salvation.

Sigh.

Yes, I'm insulted and I'm afraid I WON'T be going to his Bible Study...