Something that’s been on my mind lately are all these large Christian concerts and festivals, mens and women’s retreats; that people spend hundreds and thousands on attending.
I can almost guarantee no souls are won during these events. The people attending are believers, or at least associated.
How much more good, and souls won for our Lord, would come from actually helping people instead of literally throwing away money on that garbage!?
Part of why I feel like an outcast in almost every Christian community.
You’re right I think.
I have never been a fan of those things.
It really is getting harder to find descent Christians anywhere anymore.
So are you using some of the money saved and the time saved(by not going to these retreats) to actually serve the poor and witness to the lost that you say aren’t “being saved” by these events?
What you say might be true in a lot of cases but in “all cases”? Are you doing what you say these people arent’ doing? Or are you a whiner hypocrite and judging those for not doing what you aren’t doing??!! And if you are...are you “doing God’s work enough”? Or “not enough”? And what book are you using to measure yourself versus what the “others” aren’t doing?
I agree with you somewhat though, and do think that a “retreat” based on the book of James might not be so popular! (No personal mirrors allowed...just each other to “sharpen one another like knives”!
I do also.
And in general. I don’t fit in among the low-income. I do what I can to be a godly person, exemplifying Christian and “middle class values.” But the people are largely conformed today’s culture, and that culture is very ungodly and antichristian.