To follow up from what seemed to be a very popular series on dating, check out this video by Perry Noble from NewSpring Church in South Carolina.
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December 18th, 2009 2
To follow up from what seemed to be a very popular series on dating, check out this video by Perry Noble from NewSpring Church in South Carolina.
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Mr Noble,
Thank you for this message.
I attend a large church in Victoria, Australia. I have been attending for 5 years. I was born and raised in Montreal,Canada. I had the revelation of God 6 years ago after having stayed two years in Australia, arriving here to study initially. I still live here and I am a 36 yrs old woman.
Some say that I am a very bubbly, interesting, not bad looking woman with a charming personality and a little bit of brains. Yet, in those 5 yrs attending church and serving him the best I could, I have been asked out only twice by men. I only went out on one date, on the first year I started attending Crossway Baptist Church. The second offer, I rejected it, and this can truly happen to everyone: I knew the guy and I was not interested more than just being friends.
You might want to tour the world with a message like this one. Most women I know attending churches around Melbourne, Australia here would tell you the same as me. Maybe you and your pastoral team could have an answer to the real issues surrounding singleness at church, so you could raise awareness of it in the world’s christian movements.
Guys we meet in other settings don’t mock around if they’re interested in you: they ask for your phone number, call you or sms you, then set up a date. Why do we keep going out in groups for ever and ever, meeting all these guys and girls and RARELY been taken out on a date by a guy? Why?
On another level, I have to admit that women these days have made some first steps too. I am not the type to wait around for things to happen, so I have asked a guy out once from church and he accepted my offer. It is true the guys need to be more assertive and, mostly, more organized. There are too many guys out there who want to go out with you then act the same way you portrayed it in your message: they look numb and stupid not knowing how to plan a night out!
I will forward your online message to some key people at my church to see if some initiatives are going to be taken. I have been suggesting for a while that the issue of singleness should be risen and addressed, and this might be a good way to get the conversations happening. With the help of God, any topic can be raised and discussed at church because the church IS WITHIN the world and needs to grasps the evolution of gender roles, manhood and relationships.
In the name of our Lord Jesus-Christ,
Geneviève Gilbert
i could take the message more seriously if the messenger didn’t come off as an arrogant douchebag.