Question?? Do you feel uncomfortable around Evangelicals??

[infj_bookworm]

While there could be “ulterior motives” for prayer for you, I would just take it at face value.

The discomfort you feeling is called “culture shock.” Your evangelical wife has moments she feels the same discomfort at Mass. Some folks adjust to new cultures more quickly and more thoroughly; others have difficulty forever with things they were not raised with.

It took me a LONG time to adjust to the Catholic church, and I’m farely open and flexible.

And hey, if I were a Catholic in Africa, we’d actually have to sing and dance during Mass. Can you imagine American Catholics trying to adjust to THAT? :dancing:

 

[Tonks40]

Being a cradle-Catholic, I have to admit that when I was hanging out with evangelicals, it was a little uncomfortable at first, most due to culture-shock. But as I got to know them and their love for Christ, it did make being around them a little easier. Now I have no problems being with them at all. If they ever overtly try to dissuade me from my Catholic beliefs, I just politely smile and be on my way!

They sure are a lot more easier to talk about faith and the common things we believe in than with non-believers.

 

[davy39]

I really don’t have much of a problem with evangelicals or other protestants until they start bashing the Pope and the Church. When I respect their religion, they should respect mine. That’s one of the problems with this so-called ecumenism. It’s too much a one way street. If I’m invited to go their church, I respectfully decline.

 

[Carrie_Andrews]

JoeyWarren:

To me growing up, the general praying time in a Congregational Holiness church was more like a competition on who could be the most bolsterous and the loudest.

Oh- that’s not what I meant. I mean when a person who knows you and knows your a spiritual person says" will you pray for me?", then the pray-er puts his hand on the prayee and says a prayer for them outloud.

 

[thogg85]

mercygate:

If this is the sort of thing they do in your wife’s church, and you attend with her, then ya gotta put up with it. I realize you could not help reading between the lines – “Jesus, show this poor ignorant son of the antichrist the truth and save his soul.”

You are reading more into this than you should. Many Evangelicals pray for people by laying hands on them. When the Lord puts someone on our minds to pray for, that is a good thing no matter who it is. It may be this man’s own insecurities that cause him to think that all Evangelicals are trying to convert him. If he was firm in his faith, he would appreciate the concern. What a blessing it would be if something like that happens again, he sincerely ask the Lord to give HIM someone to pray for and be obedient and go pray over them.