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BigBoss Luffy (bigboss_luffy@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 20:33:30 JST BigBoss Luffy
church has been doing a marriage series, this week was on singleness.
good info, stuff I need to meditate and work on.
Pastor wants to talk to me and a few elders on what they can do to help singles after I brought up concerns after sermon.
Pastor had a great sermon.
said that singles have a unique position where they don't have to worry about the needs of a spouse nor kids, and can focus their energy and attention to the Church.
He also told married couples to not downplay nor disregard the struggles and heartaches of singles, nor to downplay the struggles they face as married people.
but also listening to a sermon on the benefits and greatness of singleness from a man who is married, it kinda feels a bit flat, like:
"I understand you are speaking from scripture, but you don't understand the extend we as singles are going through and struggling with in this modern age"
After the sermon I confronted my pastor.
I shocked him by telling him how predatory dating apps are and how hard it is finding Christian people on them, even on the "christian" dating apps. I also asked what the church was doing for singles, since he talked about single groups in the church, but pointed out that none are listed, and asked how the church is helping singles be content but also help them find someone too.
I know it comes down to where I need to check my heart.
I need to see how I can use my singleness as a benefit.
but the point stands that I feel like my church and the Church in general forgets about singles.
They focus primarily on families, and give us less than crumbs.
I will see if my pastor follows through with his promise of meeting with me and bringing in some elders to talk strategies my church can do.
I will hope against desperation, but right now my heart is very heavy.- BowserNoodle ☦️ likes this.
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Wyowanderer (wyowanderer@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 20:34:02 JST Wyowanderer
@hazlin @BigBoss_Luffy THIS, right here.
I'm unchurched (Rev. 18:4) and can tell you that my faith has never been better. I was leaned on pretty hard by the pastor of my last church, who needed a "maintence man" - someone to serve the bitchy men and women of the congregation.
As you say, (in a different way) God doesn't need any of us to get His will done - but the will of the congregation...that's a different story, isn't it?
Please hang in there. Not necessarily with the "church", but with God.
Your lonliness stinks, but the worst part of being lonely is still better than being in a bad marriage and a bad marriage is easy to get yourself into.BowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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Phantom Palladium (hazlin@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 20:34:03 JST Phantom Palladium
@BigBoss_Luffy
The biggest treasure of being single and atomized, is that you can see the world as it really is. And, confront lies, and replace them with unpopular truth.
What I have often seen, is a person start to see through a lie, or realize a truth. But, they cast if far away from them, when they realize it would damage their relationships, with marriage, or church family, or community.
The more, disconnected you are, the more easily you can walk with God.
> and can focus their energy and attention to the Church
I'd be very wary of anyone that teaches to direct your energy to any church. They devour peoples time, money, and energy. Often giving nothing in return.
I've found God requires, neither dedication, nor money, nor even time, to use you for His purposes. Jesus' ministry is a good example of this.
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:29 JST nugger
@SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy @branman65 IT'S NOT EVEN A DICHOTOMY
YEAH YOU HAVE LESS TIME AND RESOURCES TO SPEND ON THE CHURCH COMMUNITY, BUT NAVIGATING FAMILY LIFE WELL IS SERVICE TO GOD
ITS NOT JUST THE PRIEST SAYING FUNKY WORDS THATS SERVICE TO GOD, AND WE'RE ALL JUST ALONG FOR THE RIDE
YOU CAN SERVE GOD IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE
IDK WHAT THE POINT OF BRINGING THAT UP IN A SERMON WOULD BE OTHER THAN "HEY DON'T DOG DOWN ON THE SINGLES AND VICE VERSA"
IT'S NOT THE STATUS DISPARITY THATS THE PROBLEM -- ITS THE SINGLEHOOD BEING AN EPIDEMIC SWEEPING THE NATION -
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?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:29 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?
@nugger @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy @branman65 The issue is that there is an implicit imperative with the common pro-celibacy interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7. We are commanded throughout Scriptures to remove everything that will distract and turn us from the Lord, like in Luke 14:26 and Colossians 3:2. If they are correct regarding 1 Cor. 7, then singles must discouraged from marriage per the teachers' interpretation of verses 28-35. It doesn't matter that these same teachers cannot read the room and understand we are in a Psalm 78 world where "fire devours the young men and young women have no marriage song," and the West in one generation from demographic implosion and race wars. In their eyes demographics can go to hell, the singles are in their best station in life. They don't merely believe that they don't need to help singles get married. They believe they shouldn't help, lest they prevent the work of God.
That is why the common and traditional interpretation of 1 Cor. 7 has to go. It breaks Scriptures and turns Godly ethics inside out. It came from the spirit of the the demonic "forbidding of marriage". -
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Branman65? (branman65@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:29 JST Branman65?
@SuperSnekFriend @nugger @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy yes pro-celibacy pro-monkery theology is genocidal filth that must be done away with completely -
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Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:30 JST Summertime for Zeon
@BigBoss_Luffy @branman65 You guys get the impression that only the men ever get chewed out and chastised for being single? That's how it is over in prot-land. We only ever get the stick for being single, while every boomer soothes the inflamed whores' egos with the fact that they're entitled to have every last bite of their own cake before eating ours, too.
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?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:30 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?
@WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy @branman65 Women are usually the ones push the popularized form of the "Gift of Singleness" cottage industry in the churches. Unwitting, married, and male theologians will help formulate technical "proofs" for these popularizers, but it's not the single men who are pushing in books, articles, and videos the theological theory that celibacy is a universal and net positive gift for all historical ages and marriage necessarily prevents one from properly serving God.
Edit: I should clarify that I'm referring strictly to what is happening in the Protestant camp. Rome and the East have their own issues regarding celibacy and sexual ethics, but for entirely different historical and theological reason from what is going on in Protestantism in the last fifty years.BowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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Branman65? (branman65@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:31 JST Branman65?
@BigBoss_Luffy marriage should be held above singleness I think. if God wanted us to be single he would have never created marriage BowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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BigBoss Luffy (bigboss_luffy@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:31 JST BigBoss Luffy
@branman65
my pastor's response was "man was not created to be alone"
and heavily urged married couples to include singles into their families and lives.
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Branman65? (branman65@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:32 JST Branman65?
@BigBoss_Luffy I'm not gonna give you my whole thesis on my thoughts on singleness theology because it's long and I am a shit explainer but I'll give you a TLDR: modern anti-marriage traditions are a negative influence upon the Church and are in error. but the Church thus slacks responsibilities because many congregations simply do not give a fuck if you die alone -
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BigBoss Luffy (bigboss_luffy@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:32 JST BigBoss Luffy
@branman65
I can see that reasoning.
as I also see the goodness of both marriage and singleness.
my issue is that the church neglects in serving their single members in their needs and growthBowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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Branman65? (branman65@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:33 JST Branman65?
@BigBoss_Luffy the modern Church hates marriage. it's a real fucking shame -
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BigBoss Luffy (bigboss_luffy@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:23:33 JST BigBoss Luffy
@branman65
My issue is that the Church no longer helps single members find someone nor helps them be content with singleness.
"oh there's clubs, bars, and now dating apps, well guess that means we don't have to do anything"
it's just like many other responsibilities the church started then handed off to the world.BowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:57:29 JST nugger
@BigBoss_Luffy THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING UP BowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:07:41 JST EdBoatConnoisseur
@branman65 @SuperSnekFriend @nugger @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy celibacy worship was an extension of martyrdom worship.
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:07:41 JST nugger
@EdBoatConnoisseur @branman65 @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy THE ENTIRE FAITH IS AN EXTENSION OF MARTYRDOM WORSHIP
WHY DO YOU THINK WE PREACH THE CHRIST CRUCIFIED A STUMBLING BLOCK TO THE JEWS AND FOOLISHNESS TO THE NATIONS? -
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:07:51 JST nugger
@branman65 @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy ALL CHRISTIANITY IS AN EXTENSION OF MARTYRDOM WORSHIP BowserNoodle ☦️ repeated this. -
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Branman65? (branman65@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:07:52 JST Branman65?
@EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @nugger @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy all roman/orthodox style hyperasceticism/monasticism including celibacy worship is an extension of martyrdom worship BowserNoodle ☦️ repeated this. -
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:08:07 JST nugger
@branman65 @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy LIKE CMON
"DENY THYSELF, PICK UP THY CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME" WILL NOT RESULT IN SUNSHINE LOLIPOPS AND CONSEQUENCE FREE SELF INDULGENCE
ASCETICISM AND MARTYRDOM ARE BAKED INTO THE PIE OF BEING CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST
FAMILY LIFE IS FULL OF SACRIFICE AND SELF DENIAL FOR THE GOOD OF THE FAMILY
I MEAN, IDEALLY
AND TO EXPAND ON THIS POINT -- ITS NOT LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE BLESSED WITH STUFF JUST GET IT AS A GOOD BOY POINTS BENNIE, MUSLIM HEAVEN STYLE
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:08:38 JST nugger
@SpurgAnon @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy I SHARE YOUR CERTAINTY THAT THE TWO ARE OF A KIND AND DIFFER ONLY IN MAGNITUDE
NOT BEATING YOUR KIDS WHEN THEY TOTAL THE CAR . . . FOR JESUS
IS LIKE THE THIRD LEG OF THAT THREE LEGGED STOOLBowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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Spurg (spurganon@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:08:39 JST Spurg
@EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy I'm sure not getting laid for Jesus is exactly the same as being flayed alive for him... -
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:21:41 JST nugger
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy THAT'S A VERY DIRECT INSPIRATION
BUT THE SUBSEQUENT BOOKS ARE WRITTEN BY PROPHETS, PEOPLE UPON WHOM THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS AND INFORMS THEIR ACTIONS AND TEACHES THEM WISDOM
SO THE OT IS AUTHORED DIRECTLY BY GOD AND IS COAUTHORED BY THE HUMAN PROPHETS WHO WRITE IT DOWNBowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:21:42 JST markcuban
@nugger @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy god didnt write the old testament. jews did -
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:21:42 JST nugger
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy GENESIS IS LITERALLY DICTATED TO MOSES BY JESUS CHRIST
THE CHARLTON HESTON MOVIE WITH A LIGHTNING CARVING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS A VIRAL POP CULTURE IDEA WE'RE ALL INFECTED WITH BUT ITS NOT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS
MOSES GOES UP THE MOUNTAIN, BREACHES INTO HEAVEN, GOES INTO THE TENT OF THE DIVINE ASSEMBLY WHERE GODS SIT IN COUNCIL, AND THEN THE SON OF THE GOD MOST HIGH WHO PRESIDES OVER THE COUNCIL EXPLAINS TO HIM THE ORIGIN OF MAN AND THE PROBLEMS OF SIN, DEATH, AND SEPARATION -
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:21:43 JST nugger
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy IT'S ABOUT BELIEVING GOD ON HISTORY -
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markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:21:44 JST markcuban
@nugger @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy dont forget its also about believeing jews on history -
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?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:21:54 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?
@nugger @EdBoatConnoisseur @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy You have more info about the transfer into the heavenly realm? That sounds like something Michael Heiser (RIP) taught.
I know Exodus 25:40 can be implied that a kind of visionary translocation is going on.BowserNoodle ☦️ likes this. -
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BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:26:02 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy One of the requirements to be a Christian is to recognize the divine nature of Jesus Christ, and His existence preceding and continuing after His time being born on Earth. All true Christians acknowledge this, and it's literally a deciding factor in whether or not someone is a true Christian. You're simply ignorant. -
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markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:26:03 JST markcuban
@nugger @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy you christians just make things up that arnt even supported by the church and pretend all christians just believe that xd -
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BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:27:51 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy D&C is not for me. I don't expect you to reply in good faith, but every dumb thing you say gets me an opportunity to correct smoothbrained misinfo as permanent public statement for those who have eyes to see. -
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markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:27:52 JST markcuban
@BowsacNoodle @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy what is a deciding factor is to believe in fairy tales yes. you are stupid and your god is a jew -
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BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:29:12 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy Low effort. How many shekels do you get and is it per reply or per word you type? -
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markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:29:13 JST markcuban
@BowsacNoodle @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy i dont expect christians to have enough brains to understand anythign i say -
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markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:31:47 JST markcuban
@BowsacNoodle @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy right everyone who doesnt agree with slave mentality christianity must be a jew or atheist right. you are the jew to me. dont even speak -
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BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:31:47 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy Anyone who deliberately misrepresents Christianity is a jew whether physically or spiritually. -
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BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:32:43 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy I've read enough to know what's worth keeping. I was a secular humanist for a decade. -
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markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:32:44 JST markcuban
@BowsacNoodle @BigBoss_Luffy @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger i call you jew over and over and you call me jew? no you are the jew stupid one you cant even read a single other book or know anythign about a single other religion or anything -
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BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:33:58 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
@markcuban @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy Call for your heckin' science to save you then. Odin's tree was cut down by us. You mad? -
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markcuban (markcuban@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:33:59 JST markcuban
@BowsacNoodle @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @nugger @BigBoss_Luffy i haveny misreprestented anything. you are fools. slave mentality fools. omg le jesus save us. you are like a redditor of religion -
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nugger@poa.st's status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 10:34:15 JST nugger
@markcuban @BowsacNoodle @EdBoatConnoisseur @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @branman65 @BigBoss_Luffy I THINK YOU'RE JUST NOT AS EDUCATED AS YOU THOUGHT ON THIS ISSUE BowserNoodle ☦️ likes this.