Not exact matches
I have
stopped going to church,
stopped praying,
stopped having anything
to do with religion, but my whole family is Christian and they would not understand, especially my son
who is 10 —
who I unfortunately brought up
to believe.
Those
who do not tend eventually
to stop going to church altogether, finding the Sunday New York Times - that «parish magazine of self - congratulatory liberal enlightenment,» as Alasdair MacIntyre has so vividly called it - a less demanding way
to meet their spiritual needs.
LOVE Those few we know in our generation and younger
who have
stopped going to church on Sundays have done so for (mostly) one reason: they weren't loved.
Regarding those
who have
stopped «
going to church», we have seen many
who have not abandoned Christ, but rather have left
to follow Jesus in the world.
From personal experience i was in a
church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this
church were leaders from Africa.A place
who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need
to analyze the thing
to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip
to Mexico i felt lead
to go pray with the women
who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies
who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we
stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.
Just revisiting this, I find many Roman Catholics
who leave their
Church to try out others, really struggle with cutting the ties of their indoctrination and
stop going to any
Church.
That is why I
stopped going to church 4 years ago, because people were poisoning my relationship with a God
who I know does care.
My advice
to you, is
stop going to a
church building, start connecting with people, seek out like minded believers, and spiritual seekers
who are not believers, and do life with them.
I had a
church filled with young women
who were asking how they could
stop being sexually ravenous and wait for a Christian husband, then I'd
go home
to a wife whom I was not sexually enjoying.»
After I
stopped attending
church, and started trying
to follow Jesus into the world, the number of conversations I had with people
who don't
go to church became a nearly daily occurrence.
I think the purpose of your writer is not
to convince anyone
to stop attending
church, but
to help those
who see that practice as a necessity that there are those of us
who are taking
church to the community, and are finding Jesus as well as Christian community where we
go.