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When you find hypocrites in your workplace do you quit your job or stop coming to work just because they are there?

Why is that excuse always used when one does not want to go to Church?

Pastor C - thanks for the info about the websites!

Answer 1

Well, I think people use that excuse out of sheer laziness. But I have to admit I've used that excuse before. Now I didn't stop going to church all together but found another church I liked better. I guess for me it was kind of a turn off. But you're right, I'm sure someone won't just quit their job because they are working with hypocrites. It's just easier to find another church than to find another job.

Answer 2

Paid work is so that shame-based culture that likes putting clothes on to feel better about itself and guilt-based culture that likes paying out to feel better about itself can get to meet and help each other feel "cleansed."

The mark of the beast is the stigma of the unmarried, hard or friendly worker. If you believe in mythology (democracy, for example is based on the myth of the social contract where you give up some freedoms in exchange for protection of your rights - Christianity values freedom in Christ and it's not just talking about freedom to self-hypnotise because you can be Buddhist and do that), then God and Jesus fit the undesirable archetype.

There's nothing wrong with working for free. It doesn't mean that your skills aren't valuable. As I've just elucidated, the only skills you get paid for are unchristian ones anyway. However, if people want to pay you money for doing the kind of work you would do for free if it was necessary, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's a big system and you can't change it just because you want to. However, remember that authority structures as is are there for a reason and approved by God (Romans 13). Also, working according to your contract gives you protection too, as a Christian. It's not money that's the root of all evil.

Church is different. The challenge at church is that, as in the home, women are expected to do more than their share. The apostle Paul said that women were to keep their peace in church (ekklesia - calling out to an assembly) and not teach. They are also to wear head coverings for praying and prophesying. This means that even if they are listening in their head to a public prayer, they really should be wearing head coverings. If men really had to take the brunt of keeping the congregation entertained, enlightened, informed, kept up to date with local community concerns, as well as organising assistance for the sick, poor, hungry in the congregation as well, they might start showing some respect for what mothers do. That means that non-stop for approximately 1-2 hours, they need to not let the ball drop (if that's what they're expecting of mothers). It would be worth suffering through it just to see how they're really doing at the moment in case they decide to pay you an impromptu visit reminding you of how comforting they were after your great aunt's death and how the church needs financial support.

Answer 3

Those people really aggravate me too. I just ignore them the best I can and if that's not possible, find something about the person that may spark your interest so when there is a conversation, it may be a more enjoyable one.

I agree with you about the Church, there are more than a crowded room of hypocrites. The church tries to control people and say things that are outside the bible. Lets just say that it's good for the church and state to be separated. Personally, I don't go to one, just for that reason.

Hope this helps!! ^__^

Melz

Answer 4

They don't like Church?

Some churches DO lay heavy trips even un-scriptural ones on people.

Others suck money out of heir pockets in a way that shows the preachers have lost any fear of God due to their love of "filthy lucre".

What is the actual Bible verse where Jesus told His followers they needed to go to church on Sunday?

Or anytime at all, for that matter. He certainly didn't spend very much time there, and of the few times it's recorded He WAS there, two of them they tried to KILL Him afterwards, so really, can you blame people for being a little stand-off-ish.

It's their personal relationship with God that counts, not if or when they go to church.

And please don't feel bad if we don't all come to YOUR church. God never specialized in numbers, it's quality He's after! They don't want to come, let 'em stay home! -- Sionarra

Answer 5

Conw on at work we have to take it because we get paid, So when we go to church we can't stand it and for free, Believe you me they have plenty of hypocrites at church, the fantasy is over, you know a house and a white picket fence and the little church, its gone so stop living in denial

Answer 6

Great question. Check out the blog entry at the first link below I wrote about my frustration at having to work at my "real" job several Sundays in a row and not being able to go to Sunday evening worship services.

Answer 7

It's a lousy excuse made by people too insecure to say,"I don't go because I don't want to." If hypocracy is the problem, they better resign from the human race too.

Answer 8

I'll stay there until I can find a job elsewhere. A guy's gotta eat. :P

I don't find hypocrites in my chruch. They believe in worshipping God and being kind to each other, and that is EXACTLY what I see.

Answer 9

And I've got an Answer!

All some people need to do what they Really Want to Do, is an "Excuse".
Dosen't really matter what that excuse is either.
Ditto............(now, do you know Why they wait till they get an Excuse?)........Later...

Answer 10

got news for ya, if people do not want to do some thing, they will find an excuse, and that does not mean it is in the relm of beleivers