∞∞∞ wrote:It's been agonizing watching a close college friend become ingrained into Baptism these last few months, to the point that he quit a fantastic engineering position this week to do two years of missionary work in Africa. And of course all his Baptist "friends," most of which have accomplished very little in life (spreading the word of God doesn't count), are rallying around his decision - and were in fact a large part of swaying him into that decision. I'll support him, but it's funny how his well-educated, professional friends said it was a bad idea, and all his Church friends (most of which have no degrees and work retail/restaurant jobs, or for the Church itself) said that it was his "calling."
Ultimately to each their own, but this one really hurts.
/rant.
His so called friends don't have to agree or like is walk with God. This is HIS walk not his friends. Look in the Bible, and when God calls a man to do work, his friends never understand nor like it. I have a friend who left a job paying over 150k a year to go into the ministry. Most of his so called friends called him stupid or crazy. Now he makes more that his old job. In addition to his Church income, he owns a resturant, a Beauty supply store and a Gym.
