- Aug 2, 2016
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...and I'm not sure how that is going to go.
First thing you should know, my family is non-religious. Pretty much all of them. Everyone in my immediate family (mom, dad, brothers, sisters). I used to have to get rides to go to church in the past; I drive myself, go all by myself, and consider what to participate in pretty much without my parents being involved at all nowadays. I also still live at home.
This year, I decided to take part in a Christmas play. Already a little anxious about that (I have a lot of anxiety about sharing my faith), my mother ended up asking me if everyone could go and see it.
Thing is, I'm super worried that they won't like my church. Now, I've been scared that they wouldn't like my faith either, but that's turned out to be a promising ordeal (and as an added note, my brother will be attending a youth service for the first time in his life [for a reason unrelated to God, but nonetheless...]).
The only reason I hadn't invited them sooner is because I myself wasn't sure for a while if this was the right church for me (for reasons unknown to them, because I didn't want it to sound like I was in some low-key cult [which was already a topic that came up this year, as frustrating as it is. Not because of my church, but because of a disagreement over the definition of a "cult"]).
I guess my issue is that I can't stop catastrophizing.
extra info:
~I've only been officially "out" as a Christian for a few months.
~The issues I was having with my church were theological, so I won't get in to depth here about it. I'm still struggling to understand it exactly, and I'm not sure what the change means.
~I want to be baptized and aforementioned issues are what has been causing an avoidance, I'm hoping this play will convince me I can tell my family I want to (I just would rather them not think it's a bad church [it's not]).
Thanks in advance!
First thing you should know, my family is non-religious. Pretty much all of them. Everyone in my immediate family (mom, dad, brothers, sisters). I used to have to get rides to go to church in the past; I drive myself, go all by myself, and consider what to participate in pretty much without my parents being involved at all nowadays. I also still live at home.
This year, I decided to take part in a Christmas play. Already a little anxious about that (I have a lot of anxiety about sharing my faith), my mother ended up asking me if everyone could go and see it.
Thing is, I'm super worried that they won't like my church. Now, I've been scared that they wouldn't like my faith either, but that's turned out to be a promising ordeal (and as an added note, my brother will be attending a youth service for the first time in his life [for a reason unrelated to God, but nonetheless...]).
The only reason I hadn't invited them sooner is because I myself wasn't sure for a while if this was the right church for me (for reasons unknown to them, because I didn't want it to sound like I was in some low-key cult [which was already a topic that came up this year, as frustrating as it is. Not because of my church, but because of a disagreement over the definition of a "cult"]).
I guess my issue is that I can't stop catastrophizing.
extra info:
~I've only been officially "out" as a Christian for a few months.
~The issues I was having with my church were theological, so I won't get in to depth here about it. I'm still struggling to understand it exactly, and I'm not sure what the change means.
~I want to be baptized and aforementioned issues are what has been causing an avoidance, I'm hoping this play will convince me I can tell my family I want to (I just would rather them not think it's a bad church [it's not]).
Thanks in advance!