“How Methodist do you feel?”

My pastor lightheartedly asked me that question today, after completing the last of two membership exploration classes.  I was stumped.  I didn’t know how to answer this question.  Michaela suggested I give a percentage.  Still, I was stumped. 

Hm. 

Still: stumped am I. 

I think I still consider myself a Pentecostal person.  However, now more than ever, I do not want to become a typical Pentecostal woman, at least as I’ve seen defined by most I’ve known.  No one is perfect, but I’ve seen common threads amongst a large number of middle-aged Pentecostal woman which I do not wish for my life.  I won’t go into these here, as I do not wish to offend anyone.  But, especially after being around some of these ladies more often than my usual, here lately, I know that I do not wish to surround myself with these sorts of attitudes.  Not that Methodist women are the answer: this thought amuses me. 

I hope to become a Christian woman who seeks Christ, who is friendly, who loves on others the way Christ loves on her every day, and who follows Christ whole-heartedly.  I hope to make others feel as though they are loved and remembered and special.  I want to be more than a worker in a church; I want to love Christ in everything I do: sleep, eat, blog, read, write, teach, talk, clean, watch, cook (something I hate to do), scrapbook, play guitar, and play piano (the last two are pretty rare, these days, it seems). 

Who knows if I’ll stay with the Methodist Church forever, since I know that Christ takes me to places I never thought I’d go: the Methodist Church, for instance.  Never thought I’d join a church aside from a Pentecostal one.  Just never imagined.  I’ve a feeling God’ll keep doing things like this with me–taking me places I simply never thought of.  He shows me more of who He really is when He does these sorts of things, too, which is something I find myself praying He’ll do–for me and for others.  Maybe–just maybe–one day I’ll actually get what He’s telling me. 🙂

I’ll have to keep thinking about this question and I’ll get back to him.