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To: JenB

"Well, fortunately, the anime club doesn't meet Sunday mornings, so it's not such a dilemna after all."

ROFL!

I appreciate the dilemma you're describing there--I'm a geek of sorts, too, of course, and it can be hard for me to find social circles I fit into, too. As I've been thinking about this and as I'm listening to what you're saying, I'm thinking maybe the reason you relate to geeks better than church social circles isn't so much because of the church-vs.-secular issue as it is that your personality has a taste for fantasy and sf and such that is relatively rare both within the church and without and is most commonly found among geek types. It's too bad there probably aren't too many Christian geek clubs!--something like an Inklings group but for Christian fantasy/sf/anime fans. But who knows, maybe on a college campus there will be more Christian students interested in such things than you'd normally find in the average church. You might try putting up a flyer for a meeting and see what response you get.

BTW I do think you have a calling for ministry to geeks--what I posted wasn't meant to dispute that; actually I think that'd be very cool. I just also think it's important to develop Christian relationships within the church to support whatever evangelistic outreach a person is involved in, is the point I was trying to make.


534 posted on 08/07/2004 3:55:41 PM PDT by Fedora (Hey, hey, JFK/How many flips did you flop today?)
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To: Fedora

I'd never stop attending church, but I seriously doubt I'll have many deep friendships there. You can count on church people for a lot, but I've never "connected" as well as I do with geeks. Not that, obviously, the two are mutually exclusive, but I need the geeks more than the potluck dinners.


535 posted on 08/07/2004 3:57:34 PM PDT by JenB
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