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1 comment:
Well, since you asked...as a Christian who doesn't go to church, I found it to be kind of annoying. I found it a bit insensitive and presumptuous to kind of state it as fact that if you don't go to church that you will "fall away." I know a lot of great people who don't go to church because the churches they went to burned them in one way or another or they can't find one that expresses the gospel in a way that rings true to them.
It makes me sad when people talk about people who don't go to church like that - like we're a lost cause or something - because there are a lot of us - there are a lot of people jaded by church. Some are doing great. Some live the gospel by serving the poor every day. Some are finding less traditional ways to fellowship. Some have "fallen away". Some are confused and hurting and afraid. (hmmm - I would argue you will find people in these categories IN church, too.) And some of us read things like that and we go "Yup. That's why I don't go to church. I don't want run into people who say things like that."
There are obvious problems to not going to church - one I have stumbled across periodically is that when I find myself talking about God with people and they have questions and seem to want "more" I really don't have anywhere to "take" them. I miss that - having a network of people and a physical location to bring them to where I know they will be treated well, and honored as a welcomed guest. But I haven't found any such place where I can feel confident about that to date. While it is only sensible to note that people who don't have a church they call home may be at bit of a disadvantage to those who have regular spritual input and fellowship, there are plenty of people who show up every Sunday who think they know everything, but really miss the point. In my singular opinion.
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