Escaping those Devilish Swedes!

Everyone receives some strange emails from time to time. I don't know if this is unique to me, considering my former role as an Intercessory Missionary, but I tend to get several emails from people around the world asking for prayer. Here's one I received today, perhaps the funniest to date.  Apparently, this man wants me to pray for him to find Christian community (specifically a wife), while escaping the woes of "evil" Sweden.

An appeal for practical Christian help: Christian unmarried man innocently excommunicated from church in Sweden, ousted from Swedish society, and currently without humane future in Sweden, because of Sweden’s heartless pastors and heretic priests, and due to Sweden’s aggressively anti-Christian culture.

Will you please help? Will you please pray - that a human on earth will want to help as a Christian?

As a Christian, I need church fellowship. As a human, I need a humane environment. And as a single man longing for Christian marriage, I need opportunity for communication with other Christians. Sweden currently obstructs all three basic needs. It is essentially impossible for me as a Christian single man to marry a Christian woman in Sweden, because: 1) I am excommunicated from church without a provided reason, 2) no pastor in Sweden wants to welcome me and assist, 3) there are few Christians in Sweden (~5%), 4) most Swedish-nurtured and Swedish-cultured Christian women are feminists (relatively radical), and 5) in most international comparisons Swedish people might best be described as social imbeciles.

I have been active on Christian singles websites since around 1995, and periodically I have dedicated 40 hours per week as a full-time occupation attempting to connect with Christians on such singles sites. Many “Christian” singles websites have banned me. One of the largest international Christian singles sites banned me. The main British Christian singles website banned me. I would be surprised if anyone has more exposure to Christian singles websites as a user than I.

As harsh and church-incorrect as it will sound, yet from my extensive experience from online Christian singles connective websites, I need to be fully honest and conclude that, in essence, most Christian ladies on internet singles sites are there because of at least one of these two reasons: 1) bodily disadvantage in competing for men’s natural interest, 2) shy/introverted personalities or other personal problems. The grave overrepresentation of introverted/problematic/disadvantaged/unappealing women on the “Christian” singles websites is a logical reason of preferring to encounter more “normal” Christians face-to-face within a healthy church setting rather than online.

My unresolved agony as an innocently excommunicated Christian seeking a Christian church and marital relationship continues; day by day and year after year. Inhumane and evil Sweden, resembling Satan himself, steals, kills and destroys (John 10:10) – and offers no liveable future.

Unlike the devilish Swedish church people, will you as a non-Swede please take action as a real Christian should?

I also encourage your intercessory prayers for God to transform the hearts and minds of pastors and priests in Sweden so that their Swedishness will be transformed to Christlikeness.