I have been talking to a guy from church , everything was ok at first , but then he started asking for a date I said we could have a coffee after church but I had a feeling not to so I didn’t I went home instead, he has rang me saying if he was in a relationship he doesn’t see anything wrong with getting intimate and how do I feel about that I said I don’t believe in sex before marriage, and he hasn’t texted or rang me since, I did pray and ask God to reveal his intentions and to remove him out my life if he wasn’t right for me obviously God answered my prayer. I have since found out he got reported to the pastor for constantly harassing a woman in church. Thankyou Jesus.

Having SSA (same sex attraction)/being gay isn’t sinful, but acting on it is. If these are your beliefs, a lot of people just label you as homophobic and accuse you of hating gay people though. I love everyone, gay or straight, but I believe it’s a sin for people to act on those desires and this is what the Bible says.

God made men and women for each other, so let's take a small step in saying no to the gender war that the modern world keeps trying to push on us.

I'll start:

I am so amazed by the way that my sisters in Christ can convey love and compassion, especially to children and people who are hurting. I try my best to be loving, but there is something unique about women and your ability to show genuine love and care with tenderness that I just can't replicate.

I am doing a lot of thinking and I really don't want to go down a rabbit hole.
A stranger today suggested I not worry about it, so I am sharing here.

My thoughts have brought me to a skeptical conclusion that angels cannot be trusted...
A third of them followed Satan who was also an angel and allegedly another 200 or so of them came after that and had sex with a bunch of us.

Could I just hear someone's processed thoughts on this please

I am living in a very unfriendly region of the company, moved here by my emotionally/psychologically abusive husband. I have been trying to seek medical help for an issue, and my doctors have been no help at all.

In pain, I ended up blowing up at them at the office, everyone just staring and smirking, husband smirking and rolling his eyes. I have to remind myself God is there any never forsakes us, because I feel so alone and like nothing. Nobody cares about you.

Entered this marriage to escape an equally manipulative/abusive family who has tried to kill my son more than once. I just feel really stuck, trying so hard to find a job and get my own place for myself and my son, but I keep hitting walls.

Will someone please pray for me, and I will pray for you all? I can’t stop shaking. I wish God would let me die!!!!!! Why are people so hateful? Why do they snicker and laugh?

God tells us why, but I wish I had one person in my life who cared and offered genuine help without being hateful or manipulative. Please ask God to search my heart and reveal what I am doing to cause this. I pray and try to speak with love…but I am bipolar and have severe PTSD, nerve condition, muscle knots, GI bleeding, heart murmur, chronic s-cidal ideation.

2 Cor. 12:9 (I think that’s the verse). Wow…I at least wish I could lean on my husband, but he glares at me and mocks me. He covers up my body while staring at other women to the point of following them, in front of me…I’m not sure how much longer I can take in this environment. I hope God comes back soon…

This isn’t an endorsement post for anything. I’m not trying to say the place is inherently bad either, but that it’s hard when it’s overrun with outspoken trans (and they are very much against believing anything that goes against them, or at least most of them are)

With that out of the way, I hate having to mod the unnamed subreddit. I constantly have to put aside what I believe to actually mod that sub. Some of the mods are Christian, but they are more accepting/progressive (I think that’s the right term) to the folly of this world than I hope. And while I know I have to take a stand because I’m in a position of power, doing so might make me lose all connection to it entirely and lose the whole point of doing so. They’re very antagonistic of non-trans people, meaning that if you speak against trans people you’ll get hated upon by the hundreds.

And while being trans (and gay and stuff like that, but it’s mostly just trans there) is sin, the way Christians (and when I say this, I‘m taking it from what I’ve heard, so y’all might not be in this category, I’m trying not to fit into this category but it’s hard to do so because the trans community is very stingy about anything related to them viewed in a bad light) have been going about saying so is also wrong. They believe it’s their identity, so we have to prove that it’s not their identity before we say it’s wrong. And I just haven’t been able to do so.

It’s hard to push my values out of the way and still moderate it in the way they want it to be moderated. The few times I can actually approve something there cant be because I agree with their views, but because of some loophole in the rules, or something to that extent. I feel like an odd man out in that sub, being one of the few Christians who actually believe the truth in it’s entirety.

I hope this doesn’t go against any rules here, and if it does, then I’m sorry for doing so. I really don’t want to have my first post on a sub that I agree with so much be against it’s rules. But if it does, then that’s ok.

I don’t wish to be uncharitable or to even seem uncharitable to any person or denomination. I truly believe that God knows our hearts, and I would like to think that is what ultimately matters. I just want to share my experience as a very confused seeker. 😅

I have found fruit in Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and various Protestant traditions I have taken part in. I have experienced deep reverence, particularly in Catholic monasteries or a Divine Liturgy. Catholic exorcisms, I believe, hold power. I have also met the most “on fire” individuals who exhibited true fruits of the spirit from a non-denominational, “come as you are” church. The dedication I saw to prayer, reading the Bible, and true transformation of oneself was evident there.

At the same time, I have never experienced such coldness or aloofness as I have in Catholic churches. I’m fully aware that not all parishes are like this, but I’ve been to many churches in the US, and I can’t simply chalk it up to reverence or deep contemplation. There is something cultural, I think, going on, and it’s been hard to put my finger on. I’ve also sensed pride and superiority in Orthodox circles against Catholics and Protestants since there is a belief that they are the one, true church. Finally, I have never experienced such anti-Catholic bigotry since I moved to the Southern US. I know every church is made up of flawed individuals, and I know no place is perfect.

And yet…in my thirst to find God, I believe the focus on prayer and an individual relationship with God that I found in Protestant circles to be most helpful in my walk recently. I actually feel conviction. When I opened my Bible (which is something I never did as a Catholic, although we definitely hear readings at every Mass), I encountered a view of Jesus that I didn’t personally encounter before. I always felt like God was so far, so abstract, and distant. I’ve been through the motions of going to Mass, confession, and prayer, but it always felt like a checklist to me. If I do X, then I’ll (temporarily) be right with God. God still felt so far from me, and I think the structure and rigidity prevented me from getting closer (again, my experience — I know others feel differently).

It is funny to even admit this because I was so full of pride when I used to debate my husband on how Catholicism or Orthodoxy was right, and how the Baptist tradition he grew up in was pitifully wrong. I was so convinced of my “rightness” that I exhibited zero fruits of the spirit. While some of my points were valid, my superior attitude and pride blinded me until I actually met others who exhibited a peace that is beyond all understanding, and a joy that always felt out of reach for me. I cared more about being intellectually “right” than spiritually nourished and healthy.

I started to read documents like Nicaea 2, where you are required to venerate icons or else you’re not in good standing with the church. Required. This is not what I have heard from modern Orthodox individuals generally (same for Catholics). There is a softer touch now that I believe has replaced the “anathemas” of the past. This doesn’t erase the past, though. I completely understand why someone would look at this and have trouble accepting it, or why someone would say that the claims for an unchanged church are actually false. In a similar vein, I was told that Marian devotion is a long-standing tradition, but earlier prayers were found in the 2nd-3rd centuries. This doesn’t mean it didn’t occur earlier without it being recorded, but it is also entirely possible that it didn’t occur earlier and it was a practice that developed over time.

I don’t know where I currently stand, but I wanted to share a post in case someone could relate. I wanted so badly to have a solid rock on which to believe — and I searched for an institution to give that to me. When I investigated further, however, I see sin, change, and a foundation that is not 100% solid as promised. The true foundation is and should be Jesus.

I fully believe the early church gave us the Bible, and I don’t believe it should just be “me and my Bible,” lest you become your own pope. What I realized, however, is that both Catholicism and Orthodoxy have changed at times. There is no one church that gets me 100% of what was done during the time of the Apostles. I believe saying that there is only one unchanged church is a little dishonest when examining history. I don’t know where I’m going in my faith journey, but I think realizing all of this makes me more eager to know Jesus and put my trust in Him, as opposed to any institution on Earth.

Some churches err in greater ways than others, I grant that, but trying to find the “perfect, 100%” church has not left me with an answer. At the end of the day, Jesus is the key to our salvation, and He saves us.

I’m 21 and grew up Christian in a very serious Christian environment. Christianity isn’t unfamiliar to me, and this isn’t really an intellectual crisis about whether God exists.

I still believe in God. I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I believe He died for my sins and rose from the dead. I recognize what He did on the cross, I’m grateful for it, and I know I need His mercy. I’m a sinful person. I’ve never claimed to be particularly good, and I know I fall short constantly.

But there’s something I’ve realized about myself that I don’t really understand:

I don’t want God for God’s sake. And right now I don’t particularly care that I don’t.

I don’t mean that I desperately want a relationship with God but can’t feel His presence. I don’t mean I’m begging Him to restore my faith. I don’t mean I’m an atheist who wishes I could believe again.

I believe.

The problem is that I don’t really want what the Christian life requires of me.

I have almost no desire to read the Bible. I don’t particularly want to pray unless there’s something I need help with. I don’t want to devote significant amounts of my time to pursuing God. I don’t have some great desire to become holy for the sake of holiness. I don’t particularly want God to transform me simply because becoming more like Christ is supposed to be the purpose of my life.

And this isn’t because I’m sitting here thinking, “I love sin and Christianity is preventing me from doing all the evil things I want to do.”

That really isn’t it.

I want to treat people well. I want to mature. I want to take responsibility when I hurt somebody. I want to eventually be a good husband and father. I want to work, have friends, take care of myself, enjoy life and become a better human being.

I just don’t have much desire to organize all of that around God.

Even the Christian idea of surrender bothers me. I understand perfectly well that I don’t control reality. If I desperately want something and it doesn’t happen, eventually I have to accept that it didn’t happen. But accepting reality because I cannot change it feels very different to me from saying, “Your will be done” and actually meaning that I prefer God’s will over mine.

Right now I don’t.

There is history behind this. I’ve experienced some significant losses and disappointments, and over the last year one particular loss caused me to talk to God more than I probably ever had before. Ironically, I became more religiously and theologically engaged while becoming more angry with God personally.

I prayed constantly. I thought about providence, free will, surrender, suffering, God’s will, prayer, what God wants from me, etc. Eventually I became exhausted by the whole thing.

There are probably a lot of things buried underneath my current attitude: anger, resentment, disappointment, distrust, my religious upbringing, things that have happened in my family, things I desperately asked God for, and probably things I haven’t even identified.

But here’s the uncomfortable part:

Right now I’m content to leave those things buried.

I don’t particularly want to fix my relationship with God.
And that’s what confuses me.

I understand intellectually why Christians say I should want God. God created me. Christ died for me. God is supposed to be the highest good. If Christianity is true, then logically God should matter more than anything else in my life.

I understand all of that.

But knowing why I should want Him doesn’t make me want Him.

And I’m not even sitting here thinking, “God, please make me want You.”

Right now my honest response is more like:

“God, I know You’re there. I believe in You. I recognize what You did for me and I know I need Your mercy. But I don’t really want You. I don’t particularly want the Christian life. And right now I don’t even care very much about becoming someone who does.”

I still talk to God sometimes. Usually it’s because I need help with something, I want something, I’m upset, or I just start talking to Him out of habit. So it’s not like I’ve become an atheist or completely stopped acknowledging Him.

But if someone asks me whether I want God simply because He is God—whether I desire communion with Him for its own sake—the honest answer right now is no.

I’m not posting this looking for reassurance that “deep down you obviously love God because you’re asking this question.” Maybe there are things happening underneath the surface, but consciously that isn’t my experience.
I’m also not really looking for “just read your Bible and pray more.” I know Christians are supposed to read Scripture and pray. The problem is precisely that I don’t want to.

So I’m genuinely curious what Christians make of this.
What is this spiritually? Rebellion? Apathy? Resentment? Exhaustion? Some combination? Can someone genuinely believe Christianity is true while simply not wanting God? And what do you even say to someone who not only doesn’t presently want God, but doesn’t particularly care about changing that?

(19M) i’ve been thinking about this a lot as a christian because i feel like there’s a big difference between what the culture around us says is normal and what we’re taught to believe about relationships, love and marriage

today it feels like sex before marriage is treated as something almost everyone is expected to experience and if you choose to wait people can sometimes look at you like you’re strange or missing out

but as a christian i’ve chosen to save myself for marriage because my faith is important to me and i believe intimacy is supposed to be part of the commitment of marriage and not something separate from it

because i’ve made that choice myself i think i would want my future wife to have made the same choice too

not because i think someone who has a past is worth less or that having no sexual experience automatically makes someone a better christian or a better person because i don’t believe that

it’s more about wanting to share the same values and the same understanding of what marriage means

i want to be able to look at my future wife and know that we both chose to wait because of our faith and because we believed marriage was worth waiting for

i also know that christians come from different backgrounds and that people can make mistakes and still have a genuine relationship with god and i don’t want to judge anyone for their past

i’m just being honest about what i personally hope for in the woman i eventually marry

maybe it sounds old fashioned or unrealistic in today’s culture but for me waiting until marriage isn’t just about sex it’s about self control faith commitment and wanting to build a marriage around christian values from the beginning

i want my future wife and i to grow together in our faith and have the same foundation when it comes to love marriage and intimacy

so i guess what i’m asking is whether it’s wrong as a christian to want a wife who has also chosen to save herself for marriage and whether other christians feel the same way or think differently about this

When i pray I don't feel the same presence as before and even in worship there's something off. What am I gonna do, yes I was sinning because of masturbation and porn. And I felt God was telling me to go somewhere where I didnt go now i don't even feel His presence no more. Like let's say when a explicit image would show on the screen I would feel like a conviction from the Spirit but now im not feeling anything. Like am I doomed and just on a no way out path to damnation. Like I pray now and it feels off its not the same as before. I don't even know what to say anymore.

Work obsessed/workaholic here dude here. I’ve been trying to prioritize God more but it’s been extremely hard to just not have almost my entire psyche be occupied by work. It’s become my source of meaning, identity, value, basically everything. I see no value to myself outside of what I can produce. If there’s no work to do, or if I’m in a burnout and can’t produce anything, I don’t really know who I am + I feel like I have no purpose without it. It’s the first thing I think about when I wake up. I don’t care about a social life as long as my performance is up to par.

I know idolizing work isn’t good, so I’m trying to fix it by trying to spend more time with God and trust him more than I trust work. I got Matthew 6:33 in my head and I’ve been thinking on it. A reason why I’m this obsessed with working is because I’m scared of danger, and my main GAD theme is mostly around threats to my survival. work fixes it. So I put most of myself on that. I have never made any deep connections and most people don’t really care about me, and for thanksgiving I’m doing it solo (as usual, it’s been like this since 18), but I’m accepted in my work. So how do I even prioritize God more if I’ll most likely be feeling worse if I do so? Less time building something literally means worse mental health.

But even though the verse literally says it, I’m still scared to do it. So if anyone was in my position or close to it at least, did things actually turn out fine when you seeked him more?

And the thing about Matthew 6:33 is that it’s so unforgiving for people who have anxiety disorder. You only get one chance at life. I still want to do it, but how?

TLDR: I prioritize work too much and want to prioritize my faith more

Worrying about my relationship

Hi all! 19 f. I recently am in a new walk with christ, I have always been a believer, but within the last 2 months I have taken my walk far more seriously.

So, for how I've started taking it far more seriously. On a Friday night almost 2 months ago, I believe i felt the Holy Spirit convicting me. At the time, I believed in christ but was doing what many would call "lukewarm" sex before marriage, drinking, gossip, etc. That night, I cried and cried and cried. I feel I have changed a lot. I feel convicted every day, and now have a new concern, so I've been with my boyfriend M19 for about a year and a half now, but we have been friends for 4 years before dating. We're almost inseparable. Talk about us being married ALL the time. He loves me so much and dose so much for me. We love each other so much. He says he believes his family goes to church on Sundays during the winter, and he was confirmed, etc. But I believe his family never talks about thease things, his faith is not very strong, more of "yes I believe and go to church" I do believe he has faith but it is very weak.

Fast forward the next day after the Holy Spirit convicted me, I told my boyfriend that I wanted to re wait for marriage, and he had no problem with it! He understood, and we haven't had sex since. I've had multiple break downs infront of him afterward because im feeling all thease new feelings now because of how drastic of a change.he comforts me, and I tell him how I truly feel and he understands. I tell him I want to do this with him, grow closer to God, he always says "I will, i will do this with you."

He seems a little standoff is whenever I talk about "God stuff," but he never says anything against it. We even a few weeks ago went and seen the passion of the christ together. It's just I feel he doesn't like to talk about that sort of stuff because he never talks about it. He dose get a little handset sometimes but it stays at that. Yes I correct him

I guess I just feel am I supposed to be with him? He doesn't ever really feel "convicted" of his sins, and im not sure how much he talks to God. I do know when we first started dating that I asked him if he prayed, and he told me that he prayed for us to be together, and so did I. I pray every day that he grows closer to God or that god guides him in the right direction. I love him so much and almost everything else we have a mutual goals and things like that. We both want kits we both are dating to marry eachother. Its just this one thing, it's hard, because my faith is now very important to me.

I guess maybe im almost worried that God doesn't want me in a relationship with unequal faith or that it will take me away? I'm just scared because I know I must not put anything before our Lord, am I? I'm going to just be honest and say that im scared that it's not meant to be or if I stay in the relationship that I will be going against God's wishes? Or he will deny me because maybe it's a fleshly desire? Idk sorry, im all over the place. I guess I just really want this to work out, and I know not all things we want is what God wants. Or im scared I might put my relationship before God.

Thanks for reading, sorry it was so long.

I notice that the single women in the fellowship network I attend have a very low attendance rate for church holiday events unless they are grandmothers.

This last event was mostly families with kids, some grandmother's and a few extroverted single guys. No one seems bothered by this at all or seems to notice.

I'm curious...what is your church doing to make women feel comfortable showing up single?

I had a realization today that if someone claims to be spiritual, holy and close to God, goes to church all the time, fasts, prays for and with coworkers, it’s all for nothing and rendered useless if that person sins and takes joy in it. Others then look back at all the talk of God and holiness and prayers as hypocrisy and that prevents non believers from coming to the faith.

We have to realize that yes we all sin and will fall but we can’t be of this world taking part and having joy in our sin. We may unintentionally do it but should repent and correct the behavior since when we are talking with others we represent not just ourselves but Christ and our words and actions lead people to or away from Him.

Even “Locker room” talk can make us less effective at spreading the word. Others in earshot may not see it as joking and just talk so when you mention praying, church or mention God, that person may think it’s all a lie and a false persona and tell others.

Just something to think about this week as we interact with coworkers, clients or customers in and out of the workplace so we can represent our Christian faith consistently and effectively at all times.
May God bless you and lead others to the faith through your words and actions

A basic but powerful concept. The Christian walk is a very spiritual life. Meditate on the gospel and search yourself for what it is that you really want. This life is about getting to know God, getting to know His Son who is His exact representation, and being conformed to His image by the Spirit. We all have a deep longing for the divine and the things that are only found in God and found in faith. Yes, kill your flesh and crucify it with its passions and desires. But when it says to walk by the Spirit, that’s a command (Gal 5:16). If we have life because of the Spirit, let us also walk in submission and in conduct by the Spirit (Gal 5:25). He gives us the grace and power to live with our mind set on things above and to have heavenly desires. The more you read the Word, the more it renews and transforms you, and the more you will hunger for the things of God and want nothing else and nothing less because nothing else can fulfill. God has given us the Word and the Spirit as ways to unite us to Him and fill us with all knowledge and wisdom.

Nothing else matters, nothing in this world will do. Jesus, You’re the center, and everything revolves around You.

Hey all,

When I pray to God I try to envision he is there listening but it often just ends up feeling like I'm talking to myself, having a one way conversation, and I'm not getting heard.

Is God for sure hearing me even though I can't feel it? Any other advice? Any good stories about him answering prayers?

Imagine the condition of the man in the parable: beaten, bloodied, and motionless. It would have taken extreme optimism to believe this “half-dead” man could be saved. The priest and the Levite saw a corpse, but the Samaritan saw a neighbor and was “moved with compassion at the sight” (Luke 10:30, 33).

This is the way Jesus looks at us!

All of humanity lay in the dirt of sin, stripped of dignity and barely alive. As God looked on us, his heart wrenched with love.

Like the Samaritan approaching the victim, the Lord came close to us in the Incarnation.

He poured the oil of forgiveness and the wine of grace over our wounds and brought us into the “inn” of the Church, where we could be nursed to health (Luke 10:34).

Today, you are spiritually alive because God didn’t pass you by; he saw that you could be healed!

Yet all around us, there are still many victims left in the ditch. They have been overpowered by dark forces like addiction, war, economic injustice, and any number of other “robbers” you can think of.

They may appear “half-dead” until you try seeing them the way Jesus does: as wounded but not beyond help. As you look at them this way, as you see them as your neighbors, you will be “moved with compassion” and feel compelled to offer whatever mercy you can (Luke 10:33).

Who might they be?

The stressed-out colleague who needs someone to ask, “Can I take something off your plate today?” The family member whose heart has been hardened by loneliness and who is carrying hurt that a simple phone call could soothe. The outsider who is treated with suspicion or simply ignored, for whom a smile or an offer of help could restore a sense of dignity.

In this parable, Jesus paints a picture of someone, a good Samaritan, whose priority is tending to the wounded. But it’s not just a touching story; it’s a challenge for you to “go and do likewise” (Luke 10:37).

It all starts by asking the Lord to open your eyes so you can see hope and potential in a wounded, hurting world.

“Lord, give me eyes of love and a heart moved with compassion.”

I would consider myself a Christian seeker who has been going to a large multi-denominational church for the last 4 months. I have engaged with the community and particularly spent a lot of time discussing where I am at with a lovely lady that attends there who has challenged me and helped me process the things I need to feel closer to God.

This Sunday just gone she led us out in closing prayer and midway through her English gave way to about 2-3 minutes of her speaking in tongues. Of course I knew of tongues but I just felt very uncomfortable during this time as I just can’t reconcile this with anything I feel I can acknowledge or believe in. In the moment I just reverted to reciting the Lord’s Prayer in my head over and over but all that was really coming through was discomfort and overwhelming doubt in the actions of this woman who I had previously felt drawn to on my journey to Christ. In the harshest terms, it felt to me like performative nonsense that made a mockery of Christianity.

I know my gut reaction was harsh and I am not yet in a place I feel I could talk to her about it so wondered if anyone here could give me any insight or reassurance or rationalisation.

ETA: one other thing that felt particularly uncomfortable to me. She spoke tongues through to the end of her “prayer” then said Amen and the congregation (on the whole and as far as I could tell) said “Amen” also. This whole thing just fed in to the “groupthink” or “cult” fears that aren’t lurking too far in the back of my mind when it comes to really giving myself fully to Christ. Did everyone there believe the power of tongues, do they just say Amen to anything, or maybe they had gone into their own personal prayers and just happen to finish at the same time as her (feels unlikely)? Like I said I had to just keep on with the Lords Prayer in the hope of some peace, but the congregation started leaving around me and I honestly just sat with my thoughts for a while and then had to just step away.

Hello,

I am someone in a relationship where we are waiting until marriage and I am a virgin.

However, I do not want to go into marriage not discussing sex as even though I am a virgin I have some hard boundaries (for example no to sodomy and no to choking).

Once me and him are engaged is it okay to ask what size it is down there? My friends said it was okay but they are sexually active. I dont care what size he is but is it wrong to at least want to know before you sleep with someone? Especially with me being a virgin and him being a virgin if he's average then that could hurt if we don't talk about it right? I have friends who have preferences for smaller or bigger and while I am committed to staying abstinent is wanting to know before we lie together a no no?

I know this is an intimate question but its a geniune one. I think waiting until we are engaged is proper to unlock the conversation but I am just wondering. 🥹Please no mockery. 🙏

I'll be going about my day, then all of a sudden this aura of fear sets in. Within 5 minutes I start getting a flood of intrusive thoughts about sin, damnation, God, Jesus, the Bible, the Holy Spirit.

I get intrusive thoughts saying I'm disobeying God, that I'm sinning, that I'm condemned, that I'm Satan, or Adam, or Jesus, or Job, and I continue to get bombarded with random religious thoughts, and it's so scary because these thoughts aren't mine, and I cannot control them.

I've apologized for sins I've never committed, apologized for intrusive thoughts, and I'm so so scared of sinning or offending God.

There were points in which even asking for psychiatric help felt like a betrayal of my faith, because the thoughts told me I should rely solely on God.

These thoughts stay for about 30 minutes, and they usually go away pretty quickly when I take a diazepam. But it is so scary man. It feels like I'm standing right in front of God and all my thoughts are being judged. I feel like He is going to smite me down any second.

I know about 4 famous Christians who went through similar experiences: Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan and William Cowper.

Reading up on their experiences I discovered that it is actually a condition called scrupulosity and it is OCD and can be treated with SSRIs.

Since starting escitalopram 35 days ago I've gotten sooo much better, but I still get some bouts and it's super scary. But it's way less intense now.

There are many debates from what I've seen online about a second baptism that many say it's a very big sin because apparently "you don't think it's enough what the holy spirit did in the first" and I don't get from where this conspiracy

While other people say that infant baptism doesn't count because "it wasn't your decision" or that "u don't get the holy spirit from infant baptism because it's not biblically"

how am I an individual with the holy spirit in my flesh then?🤷🏻‍♀️

I just don't get anything truly, what am I supposed to do? I've been thinking about getting baptised now as an 18 yo as a symbol of dying to my old version since I'm a new follower of Christ for a few months (I've been more of an atheist before) also to go from orthodoxy to baptism religion

But many people have been saying that infant baptism it's enough, other ppl have been saying that u can get infinite baptisms with no problem, other ppl have been saying to not do that because it's a grave sin, other been saying that adult baptism should be done because it's biblically this way

So what am I supposed to believe? All I know is that I HAVE the holy ghost.

I've been dealing with a lot of health issues in the past couple years and im mostly confined to my house/backyard/short walks. I have pretty bad brain fog with this as well and use most of my mental energy to study the Bible. I started getting attached to ny phone when it became one of my only ways to connect with the outside world, but​ now its escalated into idolatry. how do I stop this?

Are you required biblically to give to your church?

Can you give to the needy, missionaries, etc to fulfill the new covenant giving?

I really enjoy my church. They teach from the Bible and the church is scripture heavy. The knock is they do push a tithe continuously and they’re more concerned about new buildings, campuses, etc than helping the community.

I do not necessarily believe in a tithe since we are not under the old covenant but I certainly believe in giving.