Use the time to educate your pastors/councillors on how God plans to treat the khazars, and others "who call themselves jews, but are not".
If you can also cover how physical circumcision is the mutilation of infants genitals (you know, the thing we were supposed to be 'like totes' against when it was happening to baby islamic girls) that would be instructive. If you need a few more discussion points: Cover what the Lord's 'opinion' is on "men who lay down with men", and, How God's first Commandment to humans is to be fruitful and multiply. ie: having lots of children.
After all that, if your interviewers are giving you a horrified look, choose another church. If it's your fiancee, I'm sorry, but God's telling you he's got somebody better for you.
My fiance is completely against it as am I, we were just told it was something to do before we could get married by the one church we liked. We ended up going to another church roughly a few days after they had mentioned this. We are both very against any legalistic, corporate type churches
Sounds like you both know already that, yes, it is a waste of time.
I see it more as the church trying to suck you in to becoming members by forcing a legalistic down time for marriage. This way when you do leave, or they do something dumb, you're more inclined to accept it and move on, over challenging their actions
Good call. I think I was more snarky than necessary because we attend a local church that is a little more liberal leaning than our previous one. It's nothing excessive, just that leadership goes a little too far in extending grace, and isn't quite cautious enough in preventing (I don't quite have the word for that happy-feeling-doctrine of accommodating everybody), so I feel like I do have to be wary of creeping false doctrine. (dangit, just realized I'm an old fogey, now)
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