Inviting you to Church
Initially, it was the article’s title, “What People Are Really Thinking When They Invite you to Church” , in the Huffington Post, that caught my curiosity. However, Angela Jamene’s description of her own experience on how she felt when she was the recipient of such invitations, and how she views them now that grabbed my attention. Jamene describes those invitations as undesirable and annoying. She says: “That's what I used to think. But I don't anymore. Just over two years ago, I picked up a free bible, I had read it before but, this time, almost instantly, in a wave of emotions and realizations and revelations and a wide variety of indescribable sensations, I became a Christian.” She goes on to say that Christians invite others to go to church because they want others the experience and have the same they do, because they love and because they care. I applaud Angela Jamene’s simplicity in sharing her beliefs and I’m fascinated by some reader’s strong reaction to what she sa