WOO HOO, Mr. Jake Kelly is back!!! give us a call and hang with us cool ppl. You and your gf and Jeremy and I could chill..You know you miss us..haha

Welcome back Jake! Missed ya. In response to your question: yes, it's good everyonce in awhile for your girlfriend to come to church with you. As long as you don't try to convert her it's all good. Sounds like a nice girl. Keep in touch.

Awww, I'm sorry the outerbanks didn't work out for you. Shame though, I thought it would be nice setting up out there, but alas, employment was tough to find there I guess.

It is not unreasonable for you to want to share something you like with her (not the same as it is good for your girlfriend to come to church with you). When the subject is religion, however, people aren't sure how to go about without treading on other ppl's faiths. To me, my faith and religion is something on par with the other things I enjoy doing. If it has a high weighting, then I would feel like it would be silly for some other person to not see it the way I do, especially someone that i care for.

I've found that my girlfriend often feels this way about a lot of things, hence the nagging and constant reminding of what's good for me and so on. It's a natural thing to want the best for someone you care for.

Well, duh, right? Being together at the same time as being individual (ie being in a relationship) will bring to light many interesting contrasts in your personality. The problem arises when you decide to "impose" what you like to do on your other.

Impose is a bit harsh of a word... I would say it wouldn't hurt to ask every now and then, but realistically, she has her own faith and if it is clear she wants nothing to do with your faith or her own, i suppose you'll probably have to find someone that would it you more.

If she isn't terribly attached to her faith, you could always sit down and have a nice religious talk and influence her religious ideas... just stay away from the Catholics vs Protestant historical badness :P The past is done, we know there were mistakes.

Once she is in church, do you leave her at the pew while you recieve communion? :P I've sat many a time by myself since i've missed confession and church for ages and got all these weird stares like i was related to a drug dealer or something... oh wait, i am :P

What am I babbling about again?

Oh yeah, you gotta decide if it is important that you and your partner share a religion.

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry.  My brother married a Catholic and he is a Presbyterian.  It seemed to work out ok.  They had a child about a month ago.