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But I am now a statistic. Sigh.
My husband expresses the same thing. No one wants to hang out. It’s either avoid as if he is a leper or Project. It hurts a bunch. We both lost in the transition.
My husband just reminded me of a time when an evangelical family invited us to dinner. We assumed it was friendship until the prayer was offered. The verbage, “Food and Fellowship” caught us – the dinner was a missionary effort. The family could go back to their church and count us as a hit. We never had dinner with them again. It was sad, too. We thought they were pretty chill people. mom3 wrote:My husband just reminded me of a time when an evangelical family invited us to dinner. We assumed it was friendship until the prayer was offered. The verbage, “Food and Fellowship” caught us – the dinner was a missionary effort. The family could go back to their church and count us as a hit. We never had dinner with them again. It was sad, too. We thought they were pretty chill people.
Most evangelicals consider bagging Mormons a big catch.
I agree with the notion that some assignments, callings, etc. bring with them connotations of people being numbers. Missionaries are a great example, which is one of my pet peeves about missions. I love missionaries, served a mission myself, and have two sons who did serve or are serving. But they can be very numbers oriented. How many lessons did you teach? How many baptisms did you have? etc. While I understand the underlying principle there is “sharing the gospel with all the world,” the way we measure that so easily turns things from “sharing the gospel” because we are actually concerned with the eternal welfare of the individual to checking off things on a list and reporting the numbers for whatever reward there is. HT/VT are the same. I’d much rather be hoe taught by my friend who is actually concerned for me than someone who I know is there only to report he had 100% HT.
(Note: I put “sharing the gospel” in quotes above because most people who get baptized already have the gospel. We’re sharing the church. I’m fine with that, I just dislike that the two are so often conflated.)
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