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Well you made me Google “visit the sock” to see if I could fashion some response.
What I've written. What I hope to share in the future. I am grateful to be able to participate here. Along with the many others who witness to their own faith in Christ.
Well, I do pray a lot actually. But I wouldn’t post my personal prayers here for two reasons. They are my heart conversations with God. They feel very private. But I don’t fault other Christians who wish to publicly share their prayers with others. And, if so, wouldn’t they put those prayers in the prayer request section? Or the chat section? I don’t see anyone else on this specific forum sharing any prayer requests. The other reason is that I’m well aware of many many Christians struggling and suffering in this modern era. They are the ones who deserve our earnest prayer. I’m just a comfortably retired old man. To me, it would feel embarrassingly vain to ask for prayer for myself. (As you quoted, Mt 6:5 “that they may be seen of men”)
As I have said on this string several times I am not criticizing either all or individual southeast Christians. They are as completely and sincerely Christian’ as all other ‘Christians’ throughout the United States. It has nothing to do with measuring their Christianity against others. It is focused entirely on the false claim that ‘greater Christian influence would make a region better’. My disagreement with that claim is based on the fact that the southeast region of the U.S., with a majority Christian population, performs worse than the rest of the U.S. That is a fact. That is not a broad brush against southeast Christians. It is just pointing out that the claim is false. Again…the claim, not the Christians.
OP made clear at the beginning that this wasn’t about “southern Christians” vs other Christians. The southeast just happens to have a higher density of self-proclaimed Christians.
