I do kind of like the idea of writing a letter and reading it to them. My wife will be with me for support and with my parents and the way they are, I think she'll be the best person to have with me since it would be coming out to them for her as well. My parents have always made every decision together and supported eachother, so I think it would be important for them to know my wife supports and agrees with me. Bringing their preacher isn't an option because their church has been through a couple since I stopped going and therefore I haven't met them, and the way they run their church there's no way he would ever want to help me with it. If anything, their preacher would want to bring me in to talk to the elders so they could all pile on and attack me.
It makes it hard that I'm a very non confrontational person and I know this will be a confrontation at the very least. I know how their faith owns their lives, and they taught me from a young age NEVER to disrespect authority and do everything that said authority says, and they still act as though they have authority over me even though they don't. They've also done a lot of things to help my wife and I out without ever expecting anything in return or bringing up religion. They bring up religion very casually, perhaps to act friendly to try to suck me back in.
Their church is the church of Christ, the nondenominational kind where there's no musical instruments and women aren't allowed to go before the congregation for any reason other than to be baptized.
It makes it hard that I'm a very non confrontational person and I know this will be a confrontation at the very least. I know how their faith owns their lives, and they taught me from a young age NEVER to disrespect authority and do everything that said authority says, and they still act as though they have authority over me even though they don't. They've also done a lot of things to help my wife and I out without ever expecting anything in return or bringing up religion. They bring up religion very casually, perhaps to act friendly to try to suck me back in.
Their church is the church of Christ, the nondenominational kind where there's no musical instruments and women aren't allowed to go before the congregation for any reason other than to be baptized.
