Hope 98
12-23-2005, 03:12 PM
My 15 year old daughter met a new guy at a school field trip about a week ago. She was apparently not too impressed at first, but they started emailing - one of the only ways she can communicate with anyone.
She started letting on that she liked him, so I got nosy, and emailed him myself. The most fascinating fact about him being that he had gone to a church, but had left and is looking for a new one. He also noted that the church he had attended was "almost Amish". He said that they weren't allowed TV & internet & were basically separated by gender most of the time. Now here he is in Cyber School!
I asked him why he left his church - partly because it sounded like it was actually his own decision - not just something that his parents did and he had to go along with. This is his answer.
as far as why i left? well, what it boils down to is that ther where several issues in the church that i felt should have been delt with a little differently, and me being a teenager i just dismissed them from my mind and tryed to go on. but after a while the leaders in the church started controdicting each other and then a former minister that wasn't appreciated very much by our church was ordained bishop. and that in itself caused some former issues to reserface. But what basically broke the camals back was the issue of my schooling, as i mentioned they do not permit the use of the inernete, wich makes it hard to go to this school...
so basically the laedership in the church was rapidly decaying, and i needed to go through a church split like i need a nother hole in the head.
so there u have it! haha
I think the guy has won ME over. :o
And I figure if a friendly mom doesn't scare him off - he's worth keeping!
She started letting on that she liked him, so I got nosy, and emailed him myself. The most fascinating fact about him being that he had gone to a church, but had left and is looking for a new one. He also noted that the church he had attended was "almost Amish". He said that they weren't allowed TV & internet & were basically separated by gender most of the time. Now here he is in Cyber School!
I asked him why he left his church - partly because it sounded like it was actually his own decision - not just something that his parents did and he had to go along with. This is his answer.
as far as why i left? well, what it boils down to is that ther where several issues in the church that i felt should have been delt with a little differently, and me being a teenager i just dismissed them from my mind and tryed to go on. but after a while the leaders in the church started controdicting each other and then a former minister that wasn't appreciated very much by our church was ordained bishop. and that in itself caused some former issues to reserface. But what basically broke the camals back was the issue of my schooling, as i mentioned they do not permit the use of the inernete, wich makes it hard to go to this school...
so basically the laedership in the church was rapidly decaying, and i needed to go through a church split like i need a nother hole in the head.
so there u have it! haha
I think the guy has won ME over. :o
And I figure if a friendly mom doesn't scare him off - he's worth keeping!