Posted on 08/28/2016 2:41:41 PM PDT by Salvation
Your thoughts?
Ping!
Psalm 14:1
Somewhere I read the lack of desire for dressing to attend church was the most often expressed reason for not going. I cite that as right up there with people not eating cereal for breakfast anymore, because then they have to wash the dishes. REALLY!
Loss of belief in a Creator God.
They like the “God the Redeemer” part, but struggle to recognize God’s role as the Creator of all things.
I would bet there are questions some Christians (Catholic in my case) here would love to ask on FR to strengthen their faith, but the question would come off as sounding doubtful or non Christian and we would be destroyed.
Would be nice if we could ask them openly. The answer would likely reinforce our faith.
There is no center in most people’s lives.
Middle class and upper class families have the schools for a while. but they then age out.
We are truly disconnected.
Something as personal as Faith needs no public gathering.
No wifi ?
Going to church doesn’t make you religious and not going to church doesn’t mean you’re not religious.
I am churchgoing because I am a paid professional singer for an Episcopal church, which for all its faults still is most likely to have traditional hymns and anthems from the Western music tradition. I almost never listen to sermons or go to coffee hour. I like the music, that’s it.
People realize they don’t need the building or formal organization to believe and follow the Word.
The most powerful thing in the universe, which can hardly be put into words without shouting and jumping about, gets translated into sleepy rituals, repetitive songs, and beautiful but unmoving recitations.
I once prayed that God might reveal Himself to me even more than He has and the answer I got was that if He did so "you will be even crazier than you already are."
That seems to be a major problem.
We worship and love the Creator of the Universe--the Source of our Salvation--but we can't comprehend him without going mad with ecstasy.
I get it.
But it makes church dull as dishwater.
Addendum: I pray religiously from the comfort of my home.
As an aside, cereal will make you fat.;-) Empty carbs.
Interesting insight.
I am happy the Savior did not get up in the morning the week of Passover and say, “I am lazy and don’t know what to wear.” Our Lord gave His all for us, and He deserves no less from us. Get up, get dressed and go to church. You are number 3 int he equation. It is for God first, others second and lastly us.
I stopped going when the ELCA decided to embrace gays. Haven’t really found (nor looked for all that hard) an alternative. Not to sure about accepting someone else’s interpretation of God. All mankind is flawed, why accept someone else’s flawed interpretation? I dunno, still working some things out...
God built us to be social creatures and share and spread our faith. Not sit alone in a room and pray :)
Jesus Christ is God and He founded a church. The Faith is not just “personal” -— if by that you individual, interior and solitary.
It is INTER-Personal. In every sense, every step of the way.
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