I’m not sure which forum this lives in(so please move it if need be), but it’s about time we had a thread for those Dopers who are proud to announce themselves as followers of Christ. What’s been happening in your church? Mission work? Starting new Bible groups or prayer groups? Share the ways in which the Lord has blessed you lately and share the Word with others…
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Theres not many of us here on this board.
Lets see, each summer, our teens go on a mission, and repair houses etc. and spread the word.
They went to Fredricksberg this July (I wish I could have gone).
They are also going to get some adults together next summer to go somewhere and do likewise.
We actually meet in a movie theater!
The “Great Debates” forum is for religious topics—you might want to go re-open this thread over there.
I think Christians are here, but not all of us feel like we should be forced to debate our religious lives.
I don’t see why, Eve, he/she is only asking if there are Christians here, and what they do. Non-Christians need not participate.
Let me elaborate a bit, that seemed rather short. I don’t think that this thread belongs in Great Debates (as it is) any more than a thread about “Who plays fantasy football” or “Who likes offroading”, as it doesn’t seem to be an attempt to proselytize or witness, just a chance to discuss with others of like interests. Obviously, this board being what it is, it will likely turn into a Great Debate, or else a Pit thread, simply because the non-Christians here won’t let it stay a simple discussion of interests. But that’s just my two cents worth.
Eve, as much as I respect you and love your posts I’d be inclined to disagree with that. So long as no one tries to witness in here it seems no more worthy of GD than “Funny things you cat has done.”
FTR, I’m a Christian but tend to keep it quiet around here. I don’t like to be assosciated with most of the more vocal Christians this board has had in the past, many of whom have said said pretty hateful and unchristian-like things.
Iif you want to know what I do as far as mission work I do various odd bits of mission work during my summers. Started working with Handi*Vangelism at a summer camp for the handicapped (and would give anything to be able to work there again) and has sent me to Brazil for various construction work and social projects a number of times.
One person’s response, which seemed (to me, at least) more for help than an attempt to forum-hijack this thread, does not seem to me a chiseled-in-stone foretelling that this thread will be forcefully assaulted by us godless heathens.
YMMV:)
I spend a great deal of time online, on a number of MBs – because it’s come forcefully to me that my abilities to express myself by keyboard constitute the bigger share of my practical ministry to the world. And a big piece of that is witnessing to Christian and non-Christian alike that what Jesus said about how to treat your fellow man is not what [insert televangelist of your choice here] has to say about Christian morality and supposed “family values” – but rather the caring, compassionate, affirming behavior that we all want and that most of us seem willing to give.
YMMV. But that’s what I’m called to do.
New doper, long-time lurker chiming in here.
Yep, I’m a Christian–not that there’s anything wrong with that! 
I even attempt to teach a Sunday school class to an unruly bunch of pre-teens. We often stray off-topic from the lesson to discuss such issues as race (last Sunday, in fact), other religions and what they believe, etc.
I keep wondering when they’ll kick me out 
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A line from “The Stand” occured to me when I saw this thread. Nick confessed to Mother Abigail that he didn’t believe in God. She just chuckled and said, “Why, that don’t matter none. He believed in you.” (or something like that; don’t have my copy of “The Stand” here at work.)
So…may God bless all you dopers, regardless of your beliefs!
I don’t mind if Charitians congregate in a thread in MPSIMS. I might even drop by, and talk about what I did today.
I took my daughter back to her mother’s house, so far. (It’s been a trying day, for so early, but it was nice seeing my Sweetie Pie, for the last few days) Don’t know of any social activities among my peers which is specifically oriented to Christians in an exclusionary sense, although a lot of them are Christians.
But I would advise Christians who wish to electronically congregate here that I get emotional about some things.
So,
Do not molest or tease my Godless Heathens! Some of us have spent a long time and a lot of effort getting them calmed down, and accepting. They are very nice Godless Heathens, and we love them.
OK?
Tris
The problem here, Iceland Blue, is that the overriding theme of this message board is “fighting ignorance”.
And Christian Doper tends to sound oxymoronic.
:smack:
Heh - that didn’t take long. Six posts from prophecy to fulfillment.
I wasn’t even going to post here. Mrs. Bob and I have taught Sunday School for ten years, our kids are active in Youth Group stuff - Habitat for Humanity, canned food drives, etc. But that’s just part of life, not something we do when we’re “being Christians”.
I’m personally very uncomfortable Evangelizing as a formal activity - I’m happy to share, and I certainly don’t hide my faith, but neither do I approach folks with the specific aim of witnessing to them.
Try to offer helpful, polite forum advice to someone new, and getcher head bitten off . . . OK, last time I try that.
Eve, I don’t think anyone intended to bite your head off (and my initial post was not aimed at you, I hope it didn’t come off that way). My understanding is that Great Debates is for Witnessing; the OP was looking for some aimless within-the-family chat, and specifically didn’t want to turn the conversation into an outward-directed evangelizing session.
Yeah, you should stick to catty one-liners. Works for me.
I think this is one of the biggest problems many Christians face - the perception (both from within ourselves and from others) that “being a Christian” is something that we just do on Sundays or whenever.
I am a Christian. It’s something I am, not something that I do. Granted, what I do may be affected by the fact that I’m a Christian, but then again, who knows?
I think that many of the things I do because to do otherwise would be “unthinkable”, or the fact that alternatives just don’t even occur to me - I think that I’m that way because I’m a Christian.
Do I say that people can’t be moral / good / do what’s right if they aren’t? By no means. But I am saying that for me, at least, it makes it much easier to know what IS right / moral / good.
So…I guess all I’m really saying here is that a Christian is something I am, not something that I do on occasion. I’d say that for most, it’s like that.
Christian here, and worried 'bout this thread–perfectly safe and innocuous, but like Eve said, it’s ripe for a hijack. Hope it doesn’t go that way 
I didn’t say it was ripe for a hijack, or anything bad about religion or the OP, who I’m sure is a very nice person. He/she said,
. . . and I suggested Great Debates might be a better forum for this topic. S’all.