Post About A Classmate Inviting A Fellow Classmate Of Ours To Church

[JerryNumbers]

Sometime back I made a post about a classmate inviting a fellow classmate of ours to church, With him telling me he kept a watch on his face & he was stoned faced all though the services, & walked out of the church without saying a word to anyone. Today I got the rest of the story.

My class mate told me our friend had invited him to their revival service, & he & wife went, When he walked in the door our classmate run up to him saying out loud so that everyone could hear, "This is unbelievable people, my classmate so & so just came in the door of our church, he never attends church, yet he is with us tonight," yet saying quite a bit more than this for everyone to hear.

I sure my classmate meant well, but he made a major mistake, embarrassed our classmate, & he was wishing he was somewhere else the whole time he was in church, And its quite clear, his actions did not put this person in the mood to listen to a sermon.

I might add, his wife was our classmate too. Anyway he told me today he & wife would come visit our church sometime in the future.

I'm glad I now have the whole story but sad that it went like this. Sometimes we man well, but we make terrible mistakes. The important thing I suppose to to learn from our mistakes, & especially mistakes of others too. As for me I am rather shy of putting anyone on the spot, for I know well that I would not like to put in such a postition, so I am very careful not to do such a thing.

[Oldtimer]

I suspect that the fear of making a mistake holds some people back from being a witness for the Lord. Especially those new to the Lord who feel they have so much to learn, themselves. Something along the line of.....

"What if I make a mistake that pushes someone further from the Lord instead of bringing him closer?".

[BlessedChristianlady8]

Its very hard to get people into church these days because they want to get babied and not really preached too. It took a family of Born again Christians all through the 90's to talk me into going back to church not only to a church but a Bible believeing teaching and preaching church and get myself saved. Little did I know I met my husband and found out he was brought up into the Baptist King James only Faith and Gospel singing family and was saved at 9 years old. So when we got married we started off going to a Bible church and then when we went to move to TN we started the Baptist churches and that is how I became a Baptist.

[JerryNumbers]

I suspect that the fear of making a mistake holds some people back from being a witness for the Lord. Especially those new to the Lord who feel they have so much to learn, themselves. Something along the line of.....

"What if I make a mistake that pushes someone further from the Lord instead of bringing him closer?".

Oldtimer, I feel sure all of us has done this at one time or the other, perhaps never realizing it.

The 'what if,' you ask about, thanks for God's grace.

Blessed, Babied, I don't feel that was the problem here, it was embarrassing a person in public the moment he entered the church house.

Some people love a grand entrance so that everyone see's them, others do not. If my classmate had just of went up to him, shook hands, welcoming him & his wife to church, I believe all would have been well.