This week I e-mailed 7 people out of the 20 who go to house church and none of them would give me the house church schedule... I e-mailed a guy I really liked and care about and told him I was no longer going to that church because nobody wanted me there and that I sitll wanted to be friends with him after I left the church and he didn't even bother to reply. And today... one of the elders (who was given instructions to exclude me from bible studies) e-mailed me the contact details for our next bible study but would not e-mail me the full schedule and addresss for this month (which they were instructed not to give me) So I thought... to make up for everyone hating me... I could buy everybody a 20 dollar gift certificate to red lobsters... and maybe give the pastor a gift basket with lots of different things in it (since his mother died this week) I was also thinking I could give a 300 dollar tithe when I go to church this week and personally hand it to the pastor so that he knows exactly how much money I give... I do not want to get kicked out of this church... and there is only one person there who has many any effort at all... to keep me in the church now that I've been "kicked out" by the pastor... I feel so betrayed by that guy that I liked that he wants nothing to do with me and feel foolish for ever thinking he could like me or want anything to do with me...
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This sounds like half a story. If you're being ostracized, what's your part in it? Did you do or say something that offended those people? You can't buy their esteem. Repent, ask Jesus to forgive you, and move on.
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