willowgirl50
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Please advise.
A dear friend of mine was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy a few years ago (she walks with the help of a cane and is not wheel chair bound). Now she is Born Again. She has been trying desperately to convert me to her religion. I am of no one faith. I was never baptized and was raised in a NON religions household (I am 49). She is relentless and I fear she is not using her belief wisely. She has income from her disablity and she has a man that she has been seeing for three years help pay all of her bills as well. She has money to spend on fine clothes and go to estate sales every weekend to buy things that she says "i don't need but buy anyway". She also goes out to good restaurants weekly for dinner. What bothers me is that she takes advantage of the Food Banks for her groceries...when I know she also pays for a Sams club membership and buys LOTS of food from there as well.
She takes when she doesn't need...
Also she preaches to me when I go to visit her and when she comes to my house. She BEGGED me to come to her church on her birthday as it would mean alot to her..So I did. I went with NO inclination of joining but honored her requests and went as I knew it would make her happy. I sat through it all and she was so happy that I was there.
Now fast forward a couple of weeks. I am recovering from a major surgery and have been home for 4 weeks. My partner works out of town and I have been trying to get by on my own with many physical restrictions. NOT ONE word from my religious friend except for a text the day of my surgery stating "May you find healing in our Lord Jesus Christ"...For three weeks no checking to see how I was doing or if I needed anything. Then out of the blue she says she would like to come over and visit (three weeks after surgery). I say sure I would love to see you. She visits and during her visit gives me a "get well card" with some reference to some Psalm in the bible. I thank her for the card and ignore the reference to the Psalm thing. She made reference to it and then asked if I still had the copy of the new testament that she asked me to read. I said yes its on my bookshelf. She retrieved it and proceeded to then READ to me the passage she was referring to. This went on for about 20 minutes. Then she proceeds to tell me that BY GOING TO HER CHURCH I HAVE NOW ACCEPTED THE LORD JESUS INTO MY LIFE AND I NOW HAVE ETERNAL LIFE AND THAT I AM A HEIRESS TO JESUS!!!!! I looked at her and was quite puzzled by that statement. I asked her how can that be? She said by being there I agreed to accept him into my life. I did no such thing. I did NOT accept any "communion" nor did I "drink any wine". I didn't bow my head and pray as I didn't feel comfortable in joining any prayer. I just sat there as a spectator.
HOW is this possible? I had to sit through her preaching about how I will now be able to go to heaven and so on.
This to me is NOT a good example of practicing what you preach. I think the only reason she came to visit was to tell me this crap.
Any ideas on this would be very helpful!!
A dear friend of mine was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy a few years ago (she walks with the help of a cane and is not wheel chair bound). Now she is Born Again. She has been trying desperately to convert me to her religion. I am of no one faith. I was never baptized and was raised in a NON religions household (I am 49). She is relentless and I fear she is not using her belief wisely. She has income from her disablity and she has a man that she has been seeing for three years help pay all of her bills as well. She has money to spend on fine clothes and go to estate sales every weekend to buy things that she says "i don't need but buy anyway". She also goes out to good restaurants weekly for dinner. What bothers me is that she takes advantage of the Food Banks for her groceries...when I know she also pays for a Sams club membership and buys LOTS of food from there as well.
She takes when she doesn't need...
Also she preaches to me when I go to visit her and when she comes to my house. She BEGGED me to come to her church on her birthday as it would mean alot to her..So I did. I went with NO inclination of joining but honored her requests and went as I knew it would make her happy. I sat through it all and she was so happy that I was there.
Now fast forward a couple of weeks. I am recovering from a major surgery and have been home for 4 weeks. My partner works out of town and I have been trying to get by on my own with many physical restrictions. NOT ONE word from my religious friend except for a text the day of my surgery stating "May you find healing in our Lord Jesus Christ"...For three weeks no checking to see how I was doing or if I needed anything. Then out of the blue she says she would like to come over and visit (three weeks after surgery). I say sure I would love to see you. She visits and during her visit gives me a "get well card" with some reference to some Psalm in the bible. I thank her for the card and ignore the reference to the Psalm thing. She made reference to it and then asked if I still had the copy of the new testament that she asked me to read. I said yes its on my bookshelf. She retrieved it and proceeded to then READ to me the passage she was referring to. This went on for about 20 minutes. Then she proceeds to tell me that BY GOING TO HER CHURCH I HAVE NOW ACCEPTED THE LORD JESUS INTO MY LIFE AND I NOW HAVE ETERNAL LIFE AND THAT I AM A HEIRESS TO JESUS!!!!! I looked at her and was quite puzzled by that statement. I asked her how can that be? She said by being there I agreed to accept him into my life. I did no such thing. I did NOT accept any "communion" nor did I "drink any wine". I didn't bow my head and pray as I didn't feel comfortable in joining any prayer. I just sat there as a spectator.
HOW is this possible? I had to sit through her preaching about how I will now be able to go to heaven and so on.
This to me is NOT a good example of practicing what you preach. I think the only reason she came to visit was to tell me this crap.
Any ideas on this would be very helpful!!
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