Is there anything wrong with being a home body? I am an introvert, and live a pretty simple life. I do have fibromyalgia, so I don't really go out to do much anyway...just a little shopping, visiting family, or walking.
I was extremely shy at a young age...but getting older, raising kids, and working, did help. I just am not too much of a people person. I guess this is bad being a christian?
I don't go out looking for people to save..and that kinda feels wrong. I do care for my home, help my husband, keep my grandkids...and help family when needed. I may have led a few people to christ...but its been in my family.
Anyone else an introvert too?
In modern American church culture it seems like to be a good Christian you have to be constantly busy - involved in this ministry, that social event, and of course, you must join one (or more) small groups.
But not everyone is the same, and not all (I would say probably most) cannot thrive with that sort of lifestyle.
I don't remember Jesus saying that to follow Him, you have to be an extrovert. I also don't see that everyone is called to be an evangelist (everyone has different giftings.) He's quite capable of saving people (He's the Savior after all.) If there are people outside of our daily lives He wants us introverts crossing paths with I also think He can show us and make it clear (my uber-introverted husband, who goes out of his way to NOT talk to strangers, has had this happen before.)
I know that a lot of people would find it scandalous, but hubby and I no longer attend church, in part because with all the expectations that come along with it, it's just WAY TOO EXHAUSTING. We need rest at this season of our lives, not more busyness. We do occasionally have extroverted friends try to get us involved in church activities. I don't think they will ever be able to understand us, and that the things they thrive on have the opposite effect for us, and I've had to let go of trying to make them understand.
While not written by a believer, the book "Quiet," by Susan Cain, was so helpful for me, in letting go of long-held guilt over not being more extroverted. She talks about our culture, how extroversion is held up as the ideal (she even briefly mentions modern American Christianity.) It was interesting how she contrasted 19th century American culture, and how it once valued the "Man of Character" (virtue and morals were held up as the ideal in a person), and then in the 20th century it shifted to valuing the "Man of Action," where being personable, gregarious and sociable became the new ideals. I think we now see that upheld everywhere as the ideal person, even (sadly) in the church.