When I was young I was shy, but then the joke in my family is that it's hard to get a word in edgewise, so I suppose being the baby of the family didn't make it any easier. :-) Slowly as I got older it got better. I remember at 22 or 23 though having a feeling of not fitting in at church. It's not that they weren't preaching a good word, it was just when once I got out of high school, there wasn't youth group or the teens ministry I was involved with to do anymore. And I don't know where I got the perception that Bible study was for old ladies, but my 22 year old brain just never thought that was something a 20 year old did. That and I had just graduated college and that sounded like homework.
Until one day my sister visited town and said, "You should go to bible study." What? Bible study? I had been telling her about some of the people I thought were cool and I'd like to get to meet and my sister suggested that maybe, just maybe they also went to bible study. And besides you might get to know people at church a little better and a little deeper.
Hmm... something to ponder. I didn't go right away, but I was happy that I did eventually go. I grew tremendously in my faith and I met some pretty spectaculer women and made life long friendships. Finding ways to connect with your fellow church goers is so important. It helps build the church family and it makes church so much more meaniful the better you know the people who go there. I'm glad I came out of my shell and tried something new.
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