Be kind one to another
I run into members of our previous church from time to time, in various places. For the most part, the encounters are friendly or at the very least, polite. Unfortunately I have had two not so friendly encounters recently, one of them with a person who was once a very close friend of ours. It totally baffles me how people can justify being rude to someone, simply because that person no longer subscribes to the same beliefs. In all fairness, I chose to distance myself from a lot of people from the church, for my own emotional and mental health. However, is that a reason for someone to be rude? It's as if I am contaminated with non Fundy cooties. If some of those people felt slighted or hurt by me distancing myself, they could have come to me and asked me what was wrong. Out of all the dozens of people who claimed to be my friend, only one person dared approach me and ask me if I was okay. It never ceases to amaze me how people who can spout off Bible verses on demand, don't p...