RE: I need major help with my Christian Family
February 8, 2015 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2015 at 1:16 pm by Nope.)
(February 8, 2015 at 12:53 pm)coolfunkDJ Wrote:(February 8, 2015 at 10:04 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: @coolfunkDJ,
- What kind of church do you attend?
- What was expected of you before you hinted at disbelief?
- What is expected of you now?
-Pentecostal
-To pray before every meal (which I thought was stupid when I was religious), To go to church every sunday and attend week long conventions, which is as tiresome as it sounds
-The exact same, which is killing me!
It will drive you insane but four years will go by quickly, I promise. Come here and complain or make fun of them.
I have been to a couple of Pentecostal services. They are entertaining and good fodder for mockery. My grandmother liked to keep track of her third and fourth cousins. She grew up in a small community and so knew who her extended family were. One day she was invited to see the daughter of one of her cousins' sing in church. Because I was a weird 14 year old who actually liked hanging out with my grandmother and her sister, I begged to go also. We went to this teeny tiny church and everything seemed normal until the services started. Growing up Baptist, I was used to a few Amen and Hallelujahs during the sermon but the congregation were screaming so loud that I couldn't hear either the preaching nor my cousin's singing. To this day, I have no idea if she could sing well or not. I just heard people yelling. My eyes must have been big because my grandmother and great aunt both apologized for unknowingly taking me to a Pentecostal service. LOL
When I was an adult, I went with a friend a few times to her Pentecostal service. At first I liked the music but I noticed that it repeated a lot, almost like chanting. This was not as wild a service as the one my grandmother took me too in Western NC but it still had dancing and praising. A woman in the front row had some sort of long scarf that she waved in the air.
As a sixteen year old, I also attended a friend's Pentecostal church where the members were 'slain in the spirit' The pastor touched some of them and they fell backwards. It was weird but interesting.
Do you have any clothing restrictions? When I was young, a lot of Pentecostal women had long hair and wore long skirts. Do they still do that?
