What is your view of flirting in the church?

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I am in the process of joining my church.

I have to go once a week for the induction phase.

One woman I have been flirting with!

When we hold hands in prayer I am rubbing her palms and fingers (and she does it back too make that clear).

When we are sitting down I draw funny faces in my book - and she draws love hearst - and I responded back with fun kisses.

I am FLIRTING in the church.

She took my digits.

Guess what?

I LOVE IT!

I am not responding to anything in this thread.

I am have a great time.

Single life is beautiful!

GOD BLESS IT!

Ciao.
 

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If you're not answering anything on this thread, why post it?
And why is the topic heading a question?

I think you must enjoy baiting for a response so congrats, you got it.

You, as we all are, are answerable to God and if your post was real, you and the woman are delighting in sin and bragging about ungodly behavior in the house of God, be it on your own head.
Do you understand what it is to be Christian?
 
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Church is dedicated to God. "My house will be called a house of prayer"... not flirting.
If you want to flirt, do it after church.
Be careful how far you take flirting before it turns to lust.
Glad you're having fun, just in the wrong place.
 
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Sir. This is not right. And this is especially wrong because you are being let into your church while you are using the church as a venue of sin. This woman is not your wife and you are not even engaged or in a courtship (and even in the latter two instances you'd still really be pushing it). This is called defrauding- you are arousing feelings which you have no probable nor solid reason to believe will ever lawfully be able to be fulfilled. This is also lascivious- you are stirring up forbidden lust in each other by what you are doing. You still need to embrace death with Christ and crucify your flesh that you might live unto God. And you ought to be honest and tell your church leadership what you are doing, renounce it and apologize for it before them; and likewise before the woman (and before her parents too if they are at the church). Otherwise you will enter the church a hypocrite. Please reconsider your course lest you normalize the reconciliation of carnality and sin with Christianity, and thus become so blind and hardened to true Christian godliness that it becomes extremely unlikely that you will ever turn around and get on the narrow road of submission to Christ that leads to heaven.

1 Thessalonians 4:2-8: "2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit."

Ephesians 4:17-24: "17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."
 
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I’ve never done it. I recollect two occurrences during service when Satan attempted to draw my attention to men. I kept rebuking him and understood his intention. He never did the same outside of service and I saw no reason to give him a place within me for sin. It was meant to distract my mind from the Lord.

I have found that godly connections strengthen, better, and humble me. They are other-centered and bring me closer to Him. I want more of Him when I’m in their presence not more of them.
 
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I am in the process of joining my church.

I have to go once a week for the induction phase.

One woman I have been flirting with!

When we hold hands in prayer I am rubbing her palms and fingers (and she does it back too make that clear).

When we are sitting down I draw funny faces in my book - and she draws love hearst - and I responded back with fun kisses.

I am FLIRTING in the church.

She took my digits.

Guess what?

I LOVE IT!

I am not responding to anything in this thread.

I am have a great time.

Single life is beautiful!

GOD BLESS IT!

Ciao.
I have a crush on my daughter, you don't hear me bragging about it. At least I had the decency to walk away from the whole of Christianity, and not pretend that I was still a Christian while I was doing something he hated.
 
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Your biological daughter or someone you feel fatherly towards?
Depends on your point of view. Related, yes, daughter, no. I am forced to use the world's terminology in explaining these thing's, but even though we are related, I didn't design her atomic structure myself (Or had a hand in assembling her genetically) If I did, wouldn't I therefore be her creator? So how is she my daughter? She's nature's daughter, from beginning to end.

A father I am not.
 
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I am in the process of joining my church.

I have to go once a week for the induction phase.

One woman I have been flirting with!

When we hold hands in prayer I am rubbing her palms and fingers (and she does it back too make that clear).

When we are sitting down I draw funny faces in my book - and she draws love hearst - and I responded back with fun kisses.

I am FLIRTING in the church.

She took my digits.

Guess what?

I LOVE IT!

I am not responding to anything in this thread.

I am have a great time.

Single life is beautiful!

GOD BLESS IT!

Ciao.

So your focus is on the girl and not on joining the church or on learning about God? Playing handsies when you are supposed to be praying? And you can't see the problem with this? God won't bless it because your purpose isn't to honor God.
 
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so you plan on making this woman your wife or you're just fulfilling your urges at her expense?

unless this is leading to marriage, both of you are scooping fire into your laps and you WILL get burned.
 
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I think there's a time and place for everything, and I don't think church is a proper time or location for flirting between singles. I'm a joykill like that though, so take it with a dose of salt.
 
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At least it's better than staggering into church after inhaling copious amounts of booze in tow with your drunk father...

This was midnight mass 2012 so I wasn't technically Christian yet. I just went along for the candlelight mince pies.

I think this actually is better than what the OP is doing. A comparison to him would be to sitting in the church with a couple bottles of alcohol getting drunk and pretending to be Christian while doing it.

Flirting in a social setting at church is very different than flirting during worship and prayer. God is a jealous God. He will not bless a relationship where you put your selfish desires over your worship of Him. The evidence of Christianity is where your focus is and if you love God more than any other thing in the world.
 
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I think this actually is better than what the OP is doing. A comparison to him would be to sitting in the church with a couple bottles of alcohol getting drunk and pretending to be Christian while doing it.

Flirting in a social setting at church is very different than flirting during worship and prayer. God is a jealous God. He will not bless a relationship where you put your selfish desires over your worship of Him. The evidence of Christianity is where your focus is and if you love God more than any other thing in the world.

Yeah, you don't want to be distracted from what's important with things that just AREN'T worth it. It's the same as me when I go into a BIG prayer - I'll actually meditate for up to two hours (sometimes longer) before I even utter a word. I'm so easily distracted that it can take me a very long time to filter out all of the junk and enter into the higher state of consciousness that I need to be in for a proper prayer. I know this sounds 'new age' but I truly do believe in it. I have to become unworldly in a sense, and do it at times when I know I'm not going to be busy for the next few hours.

Church should be the same. It's about all of these spirits in one room congregating together and sharing one big prayer pool - that's actually my favourite aspect of church; communal prayer is such a powerful thing , and I just can't understand why (or HOW) anyone would want think about 'getting lucky' at a time like that. It's as if people are afraid of entering into a realm beyond this world.

I think is wonderful.
 
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