Finding a new church or a new love: same difference!

When I moved to Pretoria earlier this year I knew that I had to find a new church. To me this was a process similar to dating. Many of the same rules apply when you are looking for the church that you can call ‘Yours’.

I started off attending what you could call a mega church (for South African standards). Let’s call her Number 1… Ha! I wanted to get involved as soon as possible and had even started following some of the ministers on Twitter and liked the group page on Facebook that catered for people between 20 and 30.

I was put in a small group which consisted only of 7 girls. 7 single girls. Apparently the bigger Young Adults group only met 4 times a year. So, somewhat impressed by die incredible display of cheese we spent our first evening watching a Louie Giglio DVD. I had not dropped the T-bomb (the ‘I-study-theology’ bomb) and received some weird glances when I didn’t proceed to make detailed notes in a notepad. Afterwards the girls discussed how they thought the parable of the 10 golden coins applied to dating… Now, I have a pretty active imagination but I could simply not see this.

What had I gotten myself into?

Secret Christian crushes: the minister

The old saying goes that behind every great man stands a great woman, and that’s all sweet and sentimental and stuff. But have you ever thought that you had found a great man and started convincing yourself that you could be his great woman? There are some things, we, as single Christian girls are not supposed to talk about. One of them is our secret crushes on the minister.

During the first year theology student’s introduction week earlier this year we had a couple of ministers come to talk to us about what we could expect from going into ministry one day. They touched on issues like the difficulty of funerals and counselling and time management but a large chunk of their time was used to discuss what they deemed the most important point: get married before you go into ministry.