Addressing all religions in my opinion.
Your thoughts?
1 posted on
08/28/2016 2:41:41 PM PDT by
Salvation
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2 posted on
08/28/2016 2:43:44 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
3 posted on
08/28/2016 2:46:26 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Salvation
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!
4 posted on
08/28/2016 2:46:34 PM PDT by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: Salvation
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.
To: Salvation
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.
6 posted on
08/28/2016 2:47:31 PM PDT by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Salvation
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.
7 posted on
08/28/2016 2:49:23 PM PDT by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
To: Salvation
Something as personal as Faith needs no public gathering.
8 posted on
08/28/2016 2:50:14 PM PDT by
soycd
To: Salvation
9 posted on
08/28/2016 2:50:16 PM PDT by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: Salvation
Going to church doesn’t make you religious and not going to church doesn’t mean you’re not religious.
To: Salvation
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.
11 posted on
08/28/2016 2:53:29 PM PDT by
tellw
To: Salvation
People realize they don’t need the building or formal organization to believe and follow the Word.
12 posted on
08/28/2016 2:54:01 PM PDT by
bigbob
(The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
To: Salvation
I love the
idea of going to church and some of my best friends are pastors, but their awe and simple dumbfoundedness of how wonderful God is gets watered down when they get in front of a crowd.
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.
13 posted on
08/28/2016 2:54:47 PM PDT by
RoosterRedux
(Einstein: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity)
To: Salvation
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...
18 posted on
08/28/2016 2:57:30 PM PDT by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: Salvation
I don’t go to weak, mealy-mouthed, post-modern churches. If I go, I want it to be solemn, with a sense of sacredness permeating the air.
You rarely see that, and while not all young people would go back to Church if they found such, I think more than you would expect would.
25 posted on
08/28/2016 3:05:59 PM PDT by
Shadow44
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We worship from our front deck at the natural cathedral across the way. If we need a service we invite a few Freepers like Jim Rob to come for a visit. Nothing more needed...That is except a nice $50 monthly donation to FR. Better than any church IMHO...
26 posted on
08/28/2016 3:07:04 PM PDT by
Utah Binger
(Ancestral Puebloan Xeroid)
To: Salvation
Twenty-seven percent of people in the survey say theyre attending services more often than they did in the past, cutting against the countrys overall decline in religious practice. This was most common among evangelical Protestants, three-quarters of whom say they go to church at least once or twice a month. Half of the people who said theyre going to services more often explained the change in terms of their beliefs: Theyve become more religious; they found that they need God in their life; theyve gotten more mature as theyve aged.
Pretty decent article.
Most evangelicals I know attend a Christian fellowship at least once each week just because they want to join together with other believers in Lord Jesus Christ. Also, for my family, to partake of the Lord's Supper to show unity of the body of Christ until He appears again, and not forgetting what Jesus asked us to do in remembrance of Him.
To: Salvation
Sunday morning children’s soccer league games. Those are big here in the DC area.
31 posted on
08/28/2016 3:13:40 PM PDT by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Salvation
It is My Soul ... Not the Church’s
I prefer to maintain it that way, I go to functions from a variety of denominations and I guess that is because I am used to Military Services...
Your Post/Thread made me think and at the moment the best I can come up with is I don’t want to join a club or be limited or have to choose one over another, I pretty much enjoy and appreciate all of them .. including some (that I did in the past) think were odd.
In the end I am sure I will know and I don’t fear that end.
32 posted on
08/28/2016 3:15:23 PM PDT by
TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: Salvation
I stopped going because all of the mainstream denominations got infiltrated by communists and sodomites
33 posted on
08/28/2016 3:16:44 PM PDT by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: Salvation
I left the church when a diddler bishop assigned his homo/diddler to my parish.
No church that believes in the bible would all that to happen. Yet, they did.
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