There are pushy people everywhere, and sadly, church memberships are not exempt. Please do not judge the whole church by one rude person.
This reminds me of salespeople who always called at dinnertime before the Do Not Call registry and caller ID. Politely, we would say, "Thank you but I am not interested. Please remove me from your call list." When they persisted, and some always did, we would say, "I don't want to be as rude as you are but I am hanging up now. Goodbye."
As others have suggested, you may want to have a discussion with your spouse about this. I attend church regularly but my husband does not. There were people like the woman who called you at the church we attended as a family when our kids were growing up who totally turned him off. Maybe when she calls again you could mention to her that if you ever entertained the notion of attending, she dispelled that notion with her call.
These days I go to a lively Baptist church where the people are friendly, but respect your decision to be as active or inactive as you are comfortable with. So, I continue to invite him to come along but when he declines I respect his decision. Nothing would please me more than to have him next to me at worship, and I believe that when "the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars"
(or the Lord moves him in that direction) he will be there, and not before.
This reminds me of salespeople who always called at dinnertime before the Do Not Call registry and caller ID. Politely, we would say, "Thank you but I am not interested. Please remove me from your call list." When they persisted, and some always did, we would say, "I don't want to be as rude as you are but I am hanging up now. Goodbye."
As others have suggested, you may want to have a discussion with your spouse about this. I attend church regularly but my husband does not. There were people like the woman who called you at the church we attended as a family when our kids were growing up who totally turned him off. Maybe when she calls again you could mention to her that if you ever entertained the notion of attending, she dispelled that notion with her call.
These days I go to a lively Baptist church where the people are friendly, but respect your decision to be as active or inactive as you are comfortable with. So, I continue to invite him to come along but when he declines I respect his decision. Nothing would please me more than to have him next to me at worship, and I believe that when "the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars"
