Well, the problem seems obvious to most anyone reading your posts.
You seem like you’d get along with them just fine. In fact you seem very much like those kind of people. Since you think being mean and rude is okay. You sit there and judge and you have no idea how badly I was treated.
You wanna discuss bad treatment well I am gonna. The church I grew up and ran out of like it was on fire when I was 18 treated me so bad. There were clicks, bullies, teasing you name it. This was in the 80’s too. Well the youth pastor always said “be nice to strangers so they will speak good of us and come back”. Okay Annsell I was never a member of that church. I was never baptized in that church so what does that make me? Not a member I will tell you that! I am still just a “visitor” until the day I officially join. No one ever asked me if I wanted to be baptized. Funny is that not? Geron what do you think of that? No one asked me if I wanted to join. I have been to churches that baptized kids in grade school, but no one at this church asked me. In fact all the years I was there no one ever asked me. Well after all the crap I left and you know what? I tell everyone how mean that church was just cause that pastor said “to be nice” to visitors and no one was “nice” to me. In fact when I left on my 18th birthday no one even called to ask me back. Such a nice church. Oh..and yes it was a mega church.
Oh but I am sure you will make up some excess for them. They are never in the blame /sarc. I know you kind.