Even if they don't want to talk about the rapture.  

I too have Christian neighbors for whom I am grateful!  The people to the right of me are devout Catholics.  The people across the street consist of a husband who is Catholic and a wife who is Mormon.  I agree with Jack Kelly (GraceThruFaith) that these people (many Catholics and some Mormons) are Christians.  I am able to agree, perhaps, having lived in different places where neighbors were usually agnostics or pagans or Laodiceans.  My Catholic/Mormon neighbors help me when I need a hand, such as opening a big thick packing box or regulating a thermostat or even, during a smoky fire, ordering and assembling new filter innards for my old hepa-filter.

Mike, the Catholic man, has been like a son should be.  My atheist son is his exact age and lives 17 miles from me and rarely helps except over the internet on a computer problem.  The Catholics on the right side of me have two nerdly teenaged daughters who also help with computer problems, since they are brilliant as well as devout. 

I know you need fellowship with people who believe in the rapture, Charles, and you have it here on Doves.  Be grateful for your Hallelujah Neighbors!

Mariel

PS


I said in a letter to Charles that I was grateful for my Christian neighbors, who are Catholic and Mormon (one Catholic couple and one couple where the husband is Catholic and the wife Mormon).  I told how much these people did to help me, an elderly widow.  I realized that some people might think I was basing my thoughts about them only on works they do. 

No I believe these works are prompted by the Holy Spirit, which they have within. 

As Jack Kelly said, especially concerning Mormons, although it applies to some Catholics, some of these people would have to divorce their families and social structure entirely, and be persecuted socially, by dropping the "outward trappings."  Someone said to Jack, they ought to volunteer to lose everything, and Jack replied that the commenter should try this before speaking about it.  My husband and I lost most of our family and social structure when we left Unitarianism.  We knew, and I know, the bitterness of that.  God may approve our courage in this, and count it for blessing, but of course my husband and I were not perfect saints in other respects.  We were just fragile people who took a plunge which we might have regretted...but, not really regretted, as Unitarianism is not Christian.  Catholicism is often as Christian as the Baptists down the street, from my long and thorough experience.  As for Mormons, not as much experience there, but I agree with Jack that it's possible.

You know the scriptures about this.