A Curious Girl: So what did you do at the weekend?

Hey dudes. I finally renewed my gold membership (yes, I know I don't need it but it helps keep diaryand going and I wanted to get my images back :) because, woohoo, I got paid! Now I actually have to be properly responsible with my money, instead of being too skint to be decently irresponsible with it. Sigh.
The weekend was nice - on Friday I went out with Jayne and Becky (who I met on the bus :) ). We did a sort of pub crawl, from the small crowded quirky pub to the big crowded historic pub, with a couple in between :) I like Jayne and Becky - though I feel soo young with them sometimes. It's so weird actually working in an actual proper job, my friends here are all older than me! (well apart from the other placement students... but hey). It's funny, I thought I'd want to stop at twenty-one but now I feel quite happy if I could become a cool experienced 25 year old :) (there you go... spend time with people who are cool and older than you and you'll never fear ageing!).
On Saturday I wandered around town. I climbed a really tall church tower and felt sooo achy afterwards, but the view was wonderful. And in the evening, Becky and I went to see the Motorcycle Diaries. Disappointingly low amount of motorcycle, but it was still a good film. It reminds me how much I want to go to South America... Becky's already been. The annoying thing with being a Christian is I have to put it into God's hands rather than being one of those people St. Paul chastised for saying that "tomorrow or the next day we shall go to this city and do this" because God might want my money and time for something else entirely. Heh. Honestly, you'd think he was in charge or something, the way that he acts!
On Sunday I woke up too late to go to church. Grr. So I went in the evening, I ended up going back to the first church I visited ('conservative evangelical') because I couldn't go back and visit the Charismatic one I visited last week since they don't have an evening service. What is it with Charismatic churches and not having evening services? Even small Anglican churches have evening services!
There was an interesting sermon, although I didn't agree with a couple of points. Heh, that's just habit with me. Last week I felt annoyed when someone quoted statistics as to why marriage and then co-habitation is better than unmarried co-habitation. Not even because I necessarily disagree, but because you can't just quote statistics and epect them to speak for themselves. For example, one statistic is that people who co-habit before marriage are 60% more likely to get divorced than those who get married before living together. You have to be scientific about these things... this is mere correllation and does not imply cause and effect! :) You have to ask why it is that the sort of people who co-habit before marriage are also the sort of people who get divorced. It doesn't mean that getting married first magically reduces chance of getting divorced... It may be that people who get married before living together tend to be Christians or other people with beliefs that marriage is 'sacred'. It may mean that they take marriage more seriously, or even that they feel that divorce is not allowed. Or it might be that these people would feel more ashamed to get divorced than people without those beliefs.
So this week I found myself a little annoyed by a man who suggested, in lieu of Paul's suggestions at the end of 2 Thessalonians, that if someone is not taking the teaching of the Bible seriously, they should be asked not to take part in the group until they sort it out. This would be all very well if the said person was merely complacent and just didn't care, but sometimes people are genuinely struggling, and need help, not to be ignored. But then, I'm a heretic who considers that bits of the epistles are merely opinion... But still, it reminds me of someone I know who during a period of depression was utterly ignored by his church - and a friend who, as a troubled child, was asked to leave a Sunday school and is now convinced that the Church would not have her back. We have a Church full of sinners - who are we to decide that someone is too much of a sinner for us.
He also made the point that we shouldn't be ashamed to let it be known that we're Christians when at work. To be honest, I find this really hard. I'd love it if people worked out I was a Christian by my general sunny attitude and amazingness, but alas, it is not to be (must work on being more amazing :D ). He used an interesting example, "When people ask you what you did at the weekend, do you tell them about the film you saw on Saturday or the sermon you heard on Sunday?"
So yesterday I did try to tell people I went to church, but to be honest I couldn't think of way of making the sermon relevent to a Non-Christian. But hey.
There is one comfort, though - Jesus said that we are the light of the world, and "a city on a hill cannot be hidden". So maybe I am a more obvious Christian than I thought. :)

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