greatiyk4u:
Rev. Kelvin Ugwu wrote...


So because both of you are members of different churches, that was the major reason the beautiful relationship that was leading to marriage ended?

Both of you found love, started dating, visited each others families, shared each others secrets. . .called each other everyday on phone, composed romantic-waking-up messages every morning and sleeping pill voice notes every night. . .

Then, just when talks on marriage starting surfacing. . .you remembered that she is Catholic and you don't like Catholics. She too, she wants to marry someone that shares her faith, but she is already in love with you. She found a compromise. . .her priest told her that both of you can still hold on to your different faiths. The priest called it mixed marriage. But your family said, never; over their "dead bodies" will they go to Catholic Church for a wedding. Then, you asked your pastor, he told you that a woman must submit to your "spiritual" authority, implying that women have no spiritual authority that anyone will submit to.

And that was how everything scattered. Christianity that supposed to unite, in the name of denomination, is now dividing.

It is unfortunate that we are products of a fight that was not ours and a disagreement that should not have been allowed to linger on.

The gene is still in us today, we bear the name Christians, but still look at each other with innate hatred, the type that will cause two lovers never to hold hands upon discovering their denominations.

This division, this fight did not start today. For every church that breaks up, and any new pastor created, there is almost a corresponding hatred or a total cutting away from the mother church.

It gets so deep that if one wants to marry and discovers the person is from a certain denomination, they will want the person to follow them to theirs even against the person's will. It is like this: You love me, you admire my values, but you hate where the values were nurtured.

Who says I can't marry you and still go to my church?

But the truth is, all these divisions we have today were not supposed to be so in the first place, assuming the center of our worship is Christ and not about individual charisma or gifts.

It is this "I am for Apollos" or "I am for Paul" that is making us to erroneously push the different 'Apollos' of today that are parading as powerful prophets, to go found churches so that we can be their followers. This was exactly what Paul was against in 1Cor 1:12 and 1 Cor 3:4.

Unfortunately, we have gotten ourselves here, it is so sad that we are stuck. . . It is really a mtchwwwwwww situation.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=419465962970561&id=100047214812954

Vinnie2000:




So that Catholic vs Pentecostal Topic Cause dis kind Kasala for ur Relationship?

D Topic strong Sha! Got to 18 or 19 Pages!

Things dey Really Happen in this Life oo!

chrisifeanyi:
I met a lady while in the university and we dated for 10 years. Church separated us. She's a Catholic and refused following me to Anglican. I even suggested us changing to a neutral church she refused.

Vinnie2000:




So that Catholic vs Pentecostal Topic Cause dis kind Kasala for ur Relationship?

D Topic strong Sha! Got to 18 or 19 Pages!

Things dey Really Happen in this Life oo!

CsRockefeller:
I met a lady on Nairaland. She said she can't marry a Catholic. Ok, no problem, I will change to a church both if us will decide on after marriage. She said ok.

Later, she said the wedding must be done in her own church, I said no problem.

Oya nau, can we begin the relationship? Only for her to call and start threatening me based on comments she saw on a front page thread last week about Marriage and Denomination. Not like I made any negative comment there, I was just wondering were all the anger was coming from especially as I have promised her that my word won't change.

After everything she said that night, I decided it was the last straw, I walked away.

If you see this, I'm really disappointed that you couldn't take my word and let everything about church rest. We could have had some beautiful and long lasting, but your fears and knack for perfection won't allow you to see the bigger picture.

Remember the words of Paul; If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. I wish you well

ManOfCompetence:

Can you drop the link let me read through.......thank you

RealAdewole:
Abeg tag me on the thread

temitope27:
An not a fan of any church, me that am not even going any church b4 sef, my wife can go anywhere she wanted

rainlover:
I'm stuck in this mess right now. She's Catholic and I'm penticostal. She always wanted to marry someone who shares the same faith as hers, me too.. and I'm not willing to compromise...

femi4:
This is where you goof

Though I've agreed to move, not to her church but a neutral church both of us will decide on after our wedding.

femi4:
Some Churches are not worthy at all cos they don't follow Bible doctrines. Marriage is about AGREEMENT on anything and everything. No love would survive without AGREEMENT. Hence, Church denomination is important. A Bible believing Christian has no business with Catholic and Jehovah witness

Yomiie:
Exactly my situation i am in right now, i am pentecostal, while she attend church of christ, her family said you can't marry me unless i get baptist and start attending there church... We both love ourselves, but she can't go against her family wish... It's really an headache for me cos i dont want to lose this girl... She's just perfect for me, its just the condition of church attached to it..

PeaceJoyLove:
Rubbish thread, look at how the comments above are so irritating....just spoiling christianity. Most dont even understand what is to follow Christ. If you check the ones above, they are born into christianity and they do not even understand what it means. What makes them different from Muslim they go against? Lack of spiritual insights. Imagine the comments. Very disgraceful. Rubbish!

You all better know Christ personally, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Then after, return to this thread and read the comments you made above. You all will be ashamed of yourselves.

Rubbish!

femi4:
Some Churches are not worthy at all cos they don't follow Bible doctrines. Marriage is about AGREEMENT on anything and everything. No love would survive without AGREEMENT. Hence, Church denomination is important. A Bible believing Christian has no business with Catholic and Jehovah witness

femi4:
Some Churches are not worthy at all cos they don't follow Bible doctrines. Marriage is about AGREEMENT on anything and everything. No love would survive without AGREEMENT. Hence, Church denomination is important. A Bible believing Christian has no business with Catholic and Jehovah witness

ogwuche4u:


Will a Christ like person speak in these manner? Obviously, you are not different from those you chastise

greatiyk4u:


Arr the two not Bible believing?

Hullabaloon:


https://www.nairaland.com/2265628/pentecostal-getting-married-catholic

Janosky:

Peac.eJoyLove is your fellow 3 deities slaves nau.

PeaceJoyLove:
Rubbish thread, look at how the comments above are so irritating....just spoiling christianity. Most dont even understand what is to follow Christ. If you check the ones above, they are born into christianity and they do not even understand what it means. What makes them different from Muslim they go against? Lack of spiritual insights. Imagine the comments. Very disgraceful. Rubbish!

You all better know Christ personally, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Then after, return to this thread and read the comments you made above. You all will be ashamed of yourselves.

Rubbish!