Why are we Christians so stupid?
Captain Sensible writes: Really. It's a serious question. Sometimes it can be easy to forget, when you are having an otherwise apparently reasonable conversation, just how stupid we are really being.
Can you imagine a Muslim woman being scolded for wanting to be a wife and mother, and warned that she is "making an idol" out of marriage, and how she should just forget about marriage and babies and learn to be content?
Can you imagine Islamic leaders allowing the mosques effectively to be run by women, for women, and focusing their main weekly activities on fun and games for the children?
Honestly!
It makes you wonder how many contemporary Christians it would take to change a lightbulb.
Three women to wonder whether or not it is God's will for the lightbulb to be changed.
Two women to argue that we should just wait on the Lord, and he will provide a working lightbulb in His timing.
Two women to advise that we should just pray about the situation.
One hysterical woman saying that we should learn to be content with the "gift of no light" as God must be trying to teach us something whilst we scrabble around in the darkness.
One man to freak out in fear at the thought of having to actually do something that might be a little bit scary.
And one woman who decides that she really cannot be doing with this any longer, and so takes herself off to another room where there is a lightbulb that is, actually, working! (Frieda Fruitcake adds: "This sinful sister is obviously trying to get ahead of God's perfect timing for the "gift of light", and is impatient with what God must be trying to teach her in this "season" of darkness. As she has taken her focus off the Lord and is instead "making an idol" out of lightbulbs, she will miss out on "God's best", which may, or may not, mean living her entire life in the dark. Thus sayeth the contemporary church.")
Can you imagine a Muslim woman being scolded for wanting to be a wife and mother, and warned that she is "making an idol" out of marriage, and how she should just forget about marriage and babies and learn to be content?
Can you imagine Islamic leaders allowing the mosques effectively to be run by women, for women, and focusing their main weekly activities on fun and games for the children?
Honestly!
It makes you wonder how many contemporary Christians it would take to change a lightbulb.
Three women to wonder whether or not it is God's will for the lightbulb to be changed.
Two women to argue that we should just wait on the Lord, and he will provide a working lightbulb in His timing.
Two women to advise that we should just pray about the situation.
One hysterical woman saying that we should learn to be content with the "gift of no light" as God must be trying to teach us something whilst we scrabble around in the darkness.
One man to freak out in fear at the thought of having to actually do something that might be a little bit scary.
And one woman who decides that she really cannot be doing with this any longer, and so takes herself off to another room where there is a lightbulb that is, actually, working! (Frieda Fruitcake adds: "This sinful sister is obviously trying to get ahead of God's perfect timing for the "gift of light", and is impatient with what God must be trying to teach her in this "season" of darkness. As she has taken her focus off the Lord and is instead "making an idol" out of lightbulbs, she will miss out on "God's best", which may, or may not, mean living her entire life in the dark. Thus sayeth the contemporary church.")
posted by Captain Sensible at 7:28 AM
3 Comments:
Yup.
... or my personal version of how many Christian women to change a lightbulb:
One woman first praying -- for years -- for a man BEFORE the lightbulb needs changing. Then doing everything under the sun (dating sites, singles gatherings, letting the entire world know that she really, really, really want to get married and that if they know of someone to set her up with, they should feel free to do so) to find a godly man BEFORE the lightbulb needs changing.
Finally, when the lightbulb actually does need changing, and there is no man around, trying to change it herself. And not succeeding. And being told she can do without light. Until God should choose to provide her with a man to help her change a lightbulb
ARGH.
Great post!
On another topic: A woman in my area was supposed to give a speech on being single and content with that status. (Said woman married at the age of 36.) I told my mom about it. She replied, "She's giving a talk on being single and content?!? Was it not GOD who said "It is not good for man to be alone"???"
How awesome is my mom?
Yeah, and don't forget, most all of the people who are telling her that she has to be content with living her life in the darkness all have comfortably well lit homes themselves.
This past week marked the seventh anniversary of when my husband and I first met. I would encourage all the single men and women out there who maybe are discouraged, not to let your circumstances "get you down" but to keep looking. I know it is hard, I would work a full day, and come home to an empty apartment. After awhile, it is hard to motivate yourself to go to events where you might possibly meet someone, especially if you are a woman. After a couple of years, you start to think, "Why bother?" Don't ever give up though. Use every avenue available to you, even if it means maybe getting out of your "comfort zone" once in a while. And if you do find an unchurched believer that you are in love with, and who meets your standards, you will have to be strong, and you will have to very much believe in yourself and in the decision that you have made. I cannot imagine my life if I had chosen to remain single and childless. The same people who condemn me now would still be condemning me, probably for being "not content." This way, I have my husband and my baby, and our life together. The naysayers, as far as I'm concerned, can take a long walk off a short pier.
God bless you Lisa, your husband and your child. Thank you for still caring about the situation single women face, even though you yourself are married. It is much appreciated.
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