Hello from Gloucester

[lisamerlot]

Hello everyone,

I have been raised a Christian but lost touch with my faith over the last couple of years. I attend church occasionally but looking to do so every Sunday. I thought a good place to come to get in touch with my Christianity was this forum.

Looking to make new friends from this side of the pond or the other. Feel free to reach out and I'll do my best to reply.

Take care

Lisa

(Below wearing my church best)

 

[tourist]

This forum is an excellent place to get in touch with your Christianity. Glad to have you onboard with us. Welcome to CC.

 

[lisamerlot]

This forum is an excellent place to get in touch with your Christianity. Glad to have you onboard with us. Welcome to CC.

Thank you for the welcome @tourist I am not a paid member just yet, going to see how it goes. Feel free to message me on Teleguard Messenger though my ID is J37M2W6CM

 

[BillyBob]

Once again, welcome to CC! It is nice to see a young person returning to God. Everyone has their own story as to how that happens.

Since I was not raised in a Christian home, I sat in church for 1-2 years before being moved by the word of God. To me it was an assurance problem. I did not think that I deserved forgiveness. But I slowly learned that nobody deserves it. Hope your journey does not have to go through such doubt.

So get back in church on a regular basis, grow in your faith and God will take care of the rest!

 

[lisamerlot]

Once again, welcome to CC! It is nice to see a young person returning to God. Everyone has their own story as to how that happens.

Since I was not raised in a Christian home, I sat in church for 1-2 years before being moved by the word of God. To me it was an assurance problem. I did not think that I deserved forgiveness. But I slowly learned that nobody deserves it. Hope your journey does not have to go through such doubt.

So get back in church on a regular basis, grow in your faith and God will take care of the rest!

Thank you Billy I appreciate the welcome and encouragement.

 

[TabinRivCA]

Hi and welcome to CC lisamerlot! Is merlot your name or the wine you like, lol. Lovely to have you joining the fellowship and fun here, God bless & keep you always

 

[Tall_Timbers]

Welcome, lisamerlot!

 

[HealthAndHappiness]

Hi Lisamerlot,

What is Gloucester like?

This is the biggest Baptistry in my state of West Virginia. A friend of mine got saved and he wants me to baptize him here.

If you like the outdoors, this place is very pretty. The eastern side is even more beautiful. I like to show others, videos of my state because we are very blessed with nature. There are lots of hills and valleys, cliffs and caves, waterfalls and wildlife, trees, flowers, and even mushrooms that resemble flowers they are so brightly colored.

 

[Bingo]

"And a joy it is to witness young lives with Christ being part of their lives."
'Amen'

 

[lisamerlot]

Hi Lisamerlot,

What is Gloucester like?

This is the biggest Baptistry in my state of West Virginia. A friend of mine got saved and he wants me to baptize him here.

If you like the outdoors, this place is very pretty. The eastern side is even more beautiful. I like to show others, videos of my state because we are very blessed with nature. There are lots of hills and valleys, cliffs and caves, waterfalls and wildlife, trees, flowers, and even mushrooms that resemble flowers they are so brightly colored.

Wow looks amazing, we have similar countryside here in the Cotswolds in the UK with lakes and forests. If I am ever in that part of the world I will definitely visit.

Thank you to those of you who added me on Teleguard too. Nice to make new friends.

Lisa

 

[Cold]

 

[icequeen]

Welcome to CC, Lisa. I hope you will enjoy this site, make new friends and grow in your faith. It is good to see some new people from this side of the pond joining.

 

[Subhumanoidal]

Thank you for the welcome @tourist I am not a paid member just yet, going to see how it goes. Feel free to message me on Teleguard Messenger though my ID is J37M2W6CM

Welcome to CC Lisa.
Just a heads up, I'd not give out my contact info in the forums. Posts show up in Google and other searches. Even for non-members.
Also not everyone who comes to the site has good intentions. So I'd not be too eager to pass it out in private, either.

 

[Magenta]

Welcome!

 

[lisamerlot]

Thank you everyone for the nice welcome messages so far. It is making me feel at home here.

 

[lisamerlot]

Are they any other members from the UK, particularly the west country on here?

Lisa

 

[Rhomphaeam]

Are they any other members from the UK, particularly the west country on here?

Lisa

Gloucestershire is more than likely not in the West Country because it is not really in the horn of Cornwall. However, being British on an American website governed by all manner of American 'things' is likely a risk to your sanity.

 

[Eli1]

Gloucestershire is more than likely not in the West Country because it is not really in the horn of Cornwall. However, being British on an American website governed by all manner of American 'things' is likely a risk to your sanity.

Don't be so hard on yourself.
Brits and Americans are cousins.

 

[Rhomphaeam]

Don't be so hard on yourself.
Brits and Americans are cousins.

I read this jovial reply of yours 'cousin' and surly did long to make a hearty reply. Alas, when seeking to form the words that would rekindle this melodious occasion of 'ou'r shared sanity - to whit our shared love of TEA - I saw that the bonny lass who opened our eyes to the insanity of temptation and fell from grace suddenly, as Icarus fell from the heat of the Sun, so England fell from the grace of God.

And chiefly on account of that sobering reality I was momentarily rooted in wonder at the suddenness of being 'banned' whilst simultaneously trying to be most appealing to the senses. Amen

 

[Rhomphaeam]

I wanted to make this post to yourself @Magenta - it seems wise to do that in this given circumstance.

When I first saw the OP that this OP represents I was immediately reminded of a young lady I knew through Ministry. Her birth was marked by an eventful day - and not least for her somewhat large sibling cohort who were waiting to welcome their new 'brother' into the fold of 'brothers all'.

So I took them for a Pizza and lavished upon them a feast they never did forget - and that was of course because I heartily approved of their boyishness and misplaced belief that 'another brother' was due anytime soon. I did in fact believe their mother who told me one time that God had promised her.a daughter - I knew that she was telling me the truth and so I took the boys aside whilst Mom and Dad entered the temple of Modernity to occasion the birth of their daughter. That child was brought to my memory when I saw this self proposed picture of the young lady in the OP.

The comment at #19 is a stark way of imbibing a proper sense of how we arrived at this 'madness' or a kind of madness - and especially when the claimed theatre is wilfully or circumstantially prescribed into a national claim to a Nation. In the poster's case that is of course entirely set in a claimed England. Whereas, in England to be presented in a photographic way to an implied claim that the image may be recent and then to utilise formal language (so called British English) along with the Middle Class sense of reasonable and proportionate response along with a sense of 'party' is in truth a rank deception. It was that precise function that paved the way for the "Hippie Invasion" in rural England during the early sixties.

Unfortunately all such imagery (even when innocently presented) is a risk to the presenter because it may appeal to others at a basal layer of neurological functioning and be largely unconsciously triggered in an unintentional way - if not to anyone else - and especially those who are claimed to be in private contact, as was this OP claiming. It is NOT a matter of utilising the accusatory tense implied in the greek term used biblically when Jesus, says, "Have I not chosen all of you, yet one of you is a devil". That term devil is the accusatory diabalos - and is translated 'devil' as a charachtertic of Satan's endless activity to accuse the brethren both before God and if at all possible before men.

To the below in red from my book.

If we look back into history long before Western societies made way for these ideas to become lawful, we will see that another process was taking place from the beginning in all other cultures. This is evidenced in Egyptian, Indic, Babylonian and Greek cultures, and this had to do with the stripping away of the restraints of the body, and the uncovering of the soul. The very self of the soul, with its powers and abilities to exceed the restraints of the body even unto supernatural heights and abilities, has been an ambition of men and Satan since the beginning. Yet in the past, this was not accomplished in many men but rather in the few, and it represented a knowledge of human anatomy and physiology expressed both anatomically and philosophically through religious practise, informed from the air. as well as experientially. It led to outcomes which were monstrous and profane, as acts of cruelty and perversity which exceed even this day. Things which were common practise and visible to all, in the end, became hidden. They were pressed into the shadows by the light of the gospel. Now, in rejecting Christ, they are once again becoming visible.

So. my use of the British idiomatic tense to 'slate' the British is as favourable to myself as my willingness to do the same of elements of the Constitution of the United States of America - and of course I haven't gone into that - rather to a cultural sense that the United States of America has a very profound link with ingrained British civility that has covered a multitude of rank errors of Judgement in our constitutional Monarchy.

In remembering my friends daughter and her promise of God - and her sons utter disbelief - easily replaced by another prospect of being their sisters' keepers, I also remembered that for many people reality is so grave that they cannot bring themselves to say "flee'. On the other hand some are able to say it easily and NOT be removed from the essential need of the child that became a women and so knows very well that she can hardly face reality at all.