Member Olasunkanmi Kolawole
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God will intervene in your affairs in Jesus’ name
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Thanks for sharing
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Wonders shall never end
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Whether your feelings of loneliness are because you are alone a great deal, or because even in the midst of people and activity, you feel isolated or rejected and therefore alone, you have a promise from God to cure the loneliness, to give you the power you need to change your thinking, to free you from those self-pitying, self-focused feelings of loneliness, if you’re willing to let go of your way and do it God’s way. Your way won’t cure your loneliness. God’s way will. Believe me, I know, because I’ve tried it both ways.
I encourage you to stop what you’re doing right now, and go to God in prayer. If you put it off, Satan will start working on your mind and you may never do it. Go to God now, confess your need to him, and ask him to fill your life with his presence to such a degree that those feelings of loneliness will no longer control your thinking. Don’t continue to wallow in that miserable life of loneliness. You don’t have to; Jesus is with you and his presence can fill in all the missing pieces, whatever they may be.
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Q. What are the potential benefits of dating someone at church?
A. The advantages to dating within your local church are numerous, but here are what I would consider the top three.
You get to see someone’s character on display before you begin to date them. Character is the basis for trust. Character is a foundational pillar of your relationship. God calls us to tie intimacy to character. When you date without knowing character, you’re taking a huge risk. Being in a local church together gives you a chance to see who has demonstrated character and pursue them.
You can also identify spiritual chemistry. You aren’t just a physical and intellectual being. You are spiritual. God calls us to tie intimacy to spiritual chemistry. He calls us to pursue people who are pursuing Him like we are. It’s very difficult to see that outside of a local church context. Within the church you can see how they pursue God and how they value Him.
Finally, you can see who actually helps you accomplish the mission. This isn’t your life to do with what you please. You’ve been given a mission. The person you spend your life with should be the one who best helps you accomplish that mission. How can you see that outside of the local church and being on mission together?
Q. What are the risks or dangers of trying to find love at your church?
A. I don’t think dating at church is inherently risky. It only becomes risky if you choose not to follow God when you date within the church. Here are two of the concerns I hear from people considering dating and what I tell them:
If we break up we can’t attend the same church: I’ve only seen that happen when a couple doesn’t listen to God about tying their intimacy to a marriage commitment. If you sleep together and break up, that will be true. If you follow God’s instruction and you don’t, you’ll be fine. Every time I’ve experienced a breakup where the couple couldn’t attend the same church, it was because they stole something from one another that wasn’t rightfully theirs.
I don’t want people to know about my dating life: Secrets are almost never safe. Accountability is good for relationships, not harmful. You also don’t have to broadcast it on social media. I often know who is dating well before anyone else because they will secretly hold hands while sitting together on Sunday thinking I can’t see them. It happens more than you think. I’m always cautious of someone who wants to hide their dating life from their “friends.”
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Glory be to God!
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Jesus never absent
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Hallelujah!
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I choose to give my tithes to my Church, fully confident that the way the use the funds is totally consistent with my values – including not wanting any of my tithing funds to enrich any individual. Then, since the scripture says to brings tithes AND offerings into the storehouse, I interpret that to mean that the tithes are for the Church and the offerings are for the poor. So consistent with the teachings of my Church, my family helps the poor and needy by fasting for 24 hours once a month and donating the amount we would have spent on food for that day to the poor through the Church for the Pastor to administer. We also donate our excess goods to Goodwill. We also serve the poor directly through the welfare program of the Church and via our own initiatives whenever we can, since there is much joy and satisfaction that comes from helping others who can’t help themselves.
In other words, my answer to your question would be that we should give of our tithes and offerings generously to the true Church of Jesus Christ AND to the poor, consistent with the wise counsel of the Bible.