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>>The real issue is worldliness, and accepting the world’s idea of leisure is a large part of that.

“You are correct. That is a problem that has existed since the first church walked out of the room.”

Yes, it did exist since then, but not in exactly the same way. There wasn’t then the same time available for leisure, nor the resources and all the ways of leisure that exist today. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.” (I Corinthians 5:1) This sort of thing shamed the Gentiles at the time of the early church, but it’s accepted among the population imagination today, along with all sorts of other things. I saw just the other day a “humorous” skit Saturday Night Live did a few years back in which two male friends had sexual relations with each other’s mothers, which in general people seem to accept.

“People suck at being Godly. If we did it as we should, then God wouldn’t have needed the cross.”

The New Testament makes clear, over and over, that God’s expectations for Christians, especially over time, are higher than that. Again, that God’s Word, not any human’s. For example, Paul also upbraided the Corinthians for being carnal, not spiritual, and staying on milk when they should have been ready for meat. He wrote to the Galatians not to be deceived, because God cannot be mocked, and a man will reap what he sows.

“Look at your earlier post. You had a job at the puzzle factory making objectionable puzzles,”

The objectionable puzzles were from a popular movie, something like Harry Potter but not that. The specific movie doesn’t matter. It was a movie that I’m sure got the support of a great number of Christians. There were also a couple of puzzles that I discovered online by looking up the company. One I believe had Tarot cards. These weren’t mass-produced but were specialty items and I actually only saw one box once, and they never had us work on any. Many other puzzles were things like balloons and kittens.

I did not choose this company. I signed up with the temp agency and within a couple of hours they called to see if I could go immediately to the factory. I’d never heard of the place before this. I did get to know people there a bit after that one day, and looked up information on the internet, as I said, and then within days went to the people in my church. And this was a job that I took after not working for awhile, a period during which I read the Bible and it transformed my life. But I had been in effect offered not to go back to work, and instead to go for collecting SSI disability. I had gone for secular counseling after different times and they would have backed me up if I said I couldn’t work anymore, and having relatives getting it, I knew what it would involve to get it. But I knew I could work, yet didn’t have Christian support in the virtually entirely secular area of the country I lived in.

“bad enough that you asked for advice. “

I don’t agree.

“He gave you the right answer. If it is objectionable, stop doing it. It was just a temp job! But that wasn’t the answer YOU wanted to hear, so you post that he is the bad Christian for not scratching your ears and telling you things to soothe your conscience.”

Jesus said that the world would know His disciples by their love for one another. That’s more than just “right answers,” but about having relationships. My problem was an opportunity for this elder and I to have fellowship, and to consider how to live in the world as a Christian. You say this is the right answer, but how about all the companies like grocery stores and other retail stores selling objectionable things? The real estate company, perhaps, leasing to Planned Parenthood? Or the banks holding their money? How about the corporations with policies that actively promote antichristian agendas? I also was concerned about passing judgment on the people working there, and the people at the temp agency for having this client. You say there are no perfect people in the church, but are there any perfect jobs out in the world? I knew I should be concerned about this job, but truly didn’t know what to do about it. In the end, I was only there a few months during the Christmas rush before they cancelled all their temps, and as they did, the foreman told me he would like to hire me on, but I turned him down. I would like to say that I did that as gracefully as possible too, but I’ve always felt like I could have handled it somewhat better. I know you seem to think that this was exclusively my problem not to take to other people in the church, but the two people I did go to didn’t offer to pray with me or for me, or to keep talking to me about the work I was doing. It was just *my problem.* And on it being a temp job, again it was my income, and the temp agency isn’t without all seriousness and discipline, and needing to have employees to send to the clients who need them. I didn’t know about telling them I’d have to evaluate every assignment on whether or not the company engaged in any sort of sin, but I wanted to discuss it with Christians further along than I if that was the case. The next assignment, though, was food-related, so that was all right.

“I’m telling you that people are just people and always have been. You will meet your first perfect Christian in heaven. Until then, just us give the consideration that you demand from us.”

As I said, God’s Word makes clear that even though we will remain imperfect here, God still has expectations of us. And I don’t see where I went wrong to try to get a job doing honest work, wondering what sort of moral imperfection I should accept in employers, and going to Christians who had been in a church for decades for counsel and support on it. I tried to lay out my concerns about it but in both cases was met with some hostility and impatience. You say as an inexperienced Christian with little church support, or any support, I should have just told the temp agency I wouldn’t go back, while it was too much to expect of these Christians in the church for decades, with all sorts of support systems in the church starting from the pastor on down, that they have their “comfort zones” disturbed.