I'd never stop attending church, but I seriously doubt I'll have many deep friendships there. You can count on church people for a lot, but I've never "connected" as well as I do with geeks. Not that, obviously, the two are mutually exclusive, but I need the geeks more than the potluck dinners.
"You can count on church people for a lot, but I've never "connected" as well as I do with geeks."
Yeah, I think those are two different types of relationships there. I'd say my best friends have usually been geeky friends outside the church. However, I can only relate to them about certain things. What's been really nice is when I've been able to find friends in the church who shared my interests. When I was in high school there were four guys besides me in our church teen group who liked Tolkien and played D&D, and then we had a Bible study teacher who also taught martial arts and started a class for us, which was a lot of fun.