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Marie Armenia: Questions people ask




Marie Armenia

Marie Armenia

“Are you in the Mafia?” she asked me immediately upon the conclusion of my message at a Christian women’s conference in the Midwest. I didn’t answer. I laughed. I assumed she was kidding. I had just spent an hour talking about Jesus, the Bible and how much He loves us all. Could she be asking me if while I am living as a follower of Jesus I am concurrently living by the rules of organized crime??? She was.

I asked her, “Are you serious?”

She replied that since I was a New York Italian with a bump on my nose, “You have to be in the Mafia, you have to be.”

I answered truthfully, “But, I am not.”

She turned and walked away. Not sure she believed me. Not sure I believed the question.

Another unexpected question came from a woman who was a member of a weekly Bible study class I was teaching at my church here in town. As the class was beginning she asked, “May I speak with you after class today? I have a question I wanted to ask you last week?”

 

 

I answered, “Yes. Yes, of course.” I assumed that something I’d discussed about the Bible last week had created a hunger in her to understand it fuller.

After class she came up to me and asked her question,

“Would you be interested in knowing how to eliminate the puffiness on your face?”

“What puffiness? I have a puffy face?”

Without answering, she immediately introduced me to a cream she sold that reduces it. It wasn’t a real question. It was a sales pitch disguised as one.

Nothing wrong with asking questions. Asking questions is the way we find answers. God wants us to ask Him questions. He frequently told people, “Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” (Proverbs 33:3). Which brings me to Christianity, the Bible, churches, denominations and the people involved in the quest to know God. Truth is, if we happen to have a question, it isn’t easy to find an actual answer. We might get a sentence from the by-laws of our denomination. Or we might be told that asking questions isn’t good. But that is not the answer God would give. He understands we want to understand things. He wants us to understand.

Which brings me to the purpose of this column. This column will be a place where you can ask a question and we will find God’s answer together. Do you have one? Or two? Or ten? Great. We’ll find God’s answer to every question. You can’t find the answer until you ask the question.

Thank you. Please email me your questions to news@mainstreetmaury.com.

Marie Armenia is an author, speaker and former TV host who makes her home in Spring Hill. She is author of “The Audacious Molly Bruno” and continues to write for Lifeway magazines.

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