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Feb 7, 2012Do any of your church friends know you are a nudist?
We are very active in our chruch and several of our church friends know we are nudists and go to Nude beaches.
None of them have ever been bothered by it, and once the assistant pastor found out we had been to his favorite beach, at the Canveral national Seashore. He asked me if we went to the nude beach, all I could do was give him a big grinn and he gave me a big grinn too.
Once at a church dinner wife was comparing tans with a few of the other ladies, when she, to get one up on them, told them she had an allover tan cause she had a private pool. To my surprise no one was even shocked. :-)
We are so lucky to have such a great church.
What's your church like?
Diger & Wife
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- CA
Feb 8, 2012You are fortunate in your church.
I think that your church friends don't need to know about your nudist activities. I play it safe and NOT tell my church friends about it. To most church people, nudity equals sex, hence thou shalt not commit adultery. Granted, they have a misunderstanding about what nudism is all about. That misinformation is NOT Biblical. This prejudice exists even in the liberal mainline denominations.ReagirResponder - RE
Feb 17, 2012I am too afraid to tell anyone in my church that i am a nudist. If some one asked me i would not lie to them, however i will not just offer up that information.
ReagirResponder - BU
Apr 30, 2012I've told a few people there who volunteer with me. Periodically, I may hear a few jokes about having nude gatherings. But overall they are fine with it. They feel that they could never do it even privately at home.ReagirResponder - NUMay 1, 2012[quote]
Do any of your church friends know you are a nudist?
We are very active in our chruch and several of our church friends know we are nudists and go to Nude beaches.
None of them have ever been bothered by it, and once the assistant pastor found out we had been to his favorite beach, at the Canveral national Seashore. He asked me if we went to the nude beach, all I could do was give him a big grinn and he gave me a big grinn too.
Once at a church dinner wife was comparing tans with a few of the other ladies, when she, to get one up on them, told them she had an allover tan cause she had a private pool. To my surprise no one was even shocked. :-)
We are so lucky to have such a great church.
What's your church like?
Diger & Wife
[/quote]ReagirResponder - CANov 26, 2012[quote]Only 2 friends know that I'm a nudist. I'm very private in my personal life because of being a young Pastor. To each his own, but I value my privacy[/quote]
I would continue to be private about it. If at sometime you lose favor with a congregation, they could use that against you and argue the prejudiced view that nudity equals sex, along with thou shalt not commit adultery. As I entered in a previous posting on this thread, nobody needs to know about your nudism. The prejudice even exists in the liberal mainline Protestant denominations (I am United Methodist, where the bishop appoints pastors).ReagirResponder - MI
Nov 26, 2012I am new to the area where I currently live and just getting to know fellow members of my church, so have not discussed hardly any of my life with anyone - just as they don't know how many children I have. The people I live with, hence attend church with, are Christian and they know as all my friends know. I am quite vocal about my love of nudism and not a bit shy or ashamed of sharing and discussing such. But, I don't just shake someone's hand for the first time and say, "I like to be naked" under any circumstance.
ReagirResponder - MINov 26, 2012[quote]Our church meets in a nudist club and so everyone knows !![/quote]I would love to attend a nude church that centered on Biblical foundations for teaching and preaching purposes to edify the body of Christ. If I can't find one I would even be interested in helping found one.ReagirResponder
- CANov 27, 2012Check out the True Nudist group CNC (Christian Nudist Convocation) http://www.truenudists.com/groups/1315/. CNC is a non-landed club that is affiliated with AANR. During each of the last several summers, they have 3 weekend gatherings at various nudist resorts nationwide. On Saturday, they have Christian support sessions with spirit filled discussions. On Sunday morning, they have a typical worship service with a sermon and communion. They also get in some swim time and hot tub time.ReagirResponder
- PI
Dec 1, 2012I attend a very conservative Presbyterian church where even the thought of me being a nudist would be repulsive.ReagirResponder - NA
Apr 19, 2014Although my society is extremely conservative (I live in Singapore with its rigorous laws against lots of things including public nudity), I am open about my naturism. I serve in the church orchestra and most of the parishioners in my church who know me think of me as an extremely liberal Christian and they think I'm eccentric and so they don't really mind that I'm a naturist. My wife and kids are not naturists but they know the logic behind naturism and they agree with the principles but they conform strictly to our societal convention on nudity.
I think it's ignorance that makes people oppose naturism. When I joined the Taiwan Naturist Association for a get-together last year, many in my church thought it had to be an orgy! They were surprised when I posted photos of the event on my Facebook (with censorship of course - FB will ban anyone who posts nude photos). I even posted the photo my wife liked best. They were utterly shocked that I even shared the photos with my wife. It then became patently clear to them that I could not have participated in anything sexual if I was so open about it. I took the opportunity to explain to them what naturism was all about.
They still think I'm eccentric but at least they have a clearer idea about naturism and they know that it's they themselves who have this hang-up about sexual matters and they are the ones who think of sex all the time and equate any form of nudity with sex. But most of the people in my church still think of nudity as embarrassing.ReagirResponder - CAApr 19, 2014
Facebook does indeed ban anybody posting nude photos. However I wouldn't do it in Facebook, even if they accepted the photos. That is because many of my Facebook friends are people I know from Christian organizations, including church.
ReagirResponder - AU
Apr 19, 2014No, i do not feel comfortable that this would not create a whole domino effect, which, when i think about it, says a lot about that community.
mine is a catholic community, but i have never once heard even remote discussion on Pope Paul II writings on the naked body not being shameful.
food for thoughtReagirResponder - FU
Apr 26, 2014We are members of a large church and although I had not met them before, I've met several other members of our church at our local nudist resort. So do any members of our church know? Yes. Do an any members of our church that we know from church know. Not really, I think one couple has an idea but otherwise no.
ReagirResponder - AUApr 28, 2014Nakedrebel,
I am sure, that like me, you have encountered many people who just have to find something to complain about in others,
I often feel that it is a human trait employed by many to feel they are distracting attention from themselves.
So often it is good god-fearing people - who unfortunately do not understand the full position of scripture and furthermore have somehow thought the comment by ChristHe who is without sinamong you,let himbe thefirsttothrowastoneat her- somehow does not apply to them as it does to each of us.
Not sure where they located the exemption application form!!ReagirResponder - BA
May 11, 2014Unless this Topic is a bit old (3years), but it seems that it's still actual. I have to say none of my friends (from the church or not) knows that I am a nudist, except one. This one has no problem about that, but I fear the reaction of all the others. Some may think, that I could be a nudist but say nothing at all. As some has written in this topic that nudism is often regarded as equal to sex and that's what I also encounter in discussions with my friends of the church. Even though they like my paintings of naked people (like Adam & Eve), but some argued that I should paint more people with clothes on. My answer is often that I cannot paint clothes, because it's too difficult (that's true!) and I like it better this way. But painting nudes and be nude is still a big differency for some of my friends. I don't know how they will react when I will tell them that I was painting the nudes while I was nude myself;-)
Btw. Jesaja preached naked as well. (But only as a comparison, I know)[url=null][/url]
My painting "Adam & Eve"is to be seen here.ReagirResponder - BI
Aug 27, 2014[quote]yup,...., only because they are too! LOL!!! I'm a Christian Druid and most of my "church friends" are Southern Baptists. Funny thing tho-none of them know each other so it's a bit of an invisible circle of friends. They all know I am and yet not each other![/quote]Speaking of Southern Baptists: What do four Southern Baptists do when they go fishing together?
They always bring a fifth.
As Foghorn Leghorn would say, "that's a jo--I say, that's a *joke* son!" ;)ReagirResponder
