Why do you go to Church? Is it for the socializing? Is it to hear some old dude read you stuff out of a book? Is it to get in touch with your God? Do you think you can't read your book, ponder religious philosophy, and commune with your religion's view of the divine on your own on Saturday night? If you have a religion, you don't need a Church. Study its philosophy, try to live it during the week, and then review the results in view of your religion's ideals at the time you designate within your schedule. All this other mumbo-jumbo is really a design to prop up power structures and get donations that tend to wind up in extravagance instead of real charity. Churches are man-made. It's good to check your ideas with others from time to time so you don't wander off into la-la-land, but you don't need a church to tell you what to think about your God(s). The folk who tell you it's a 'sin' to skip Sunday school probably get paid to teach it.
Okay. So you have reasons. That's good. What about studying on your own three out of four weeks and doing the inconvenient Sunday thing on the fourth? That way you do your spirituality once per week (instead of skipping Sunday and getting none that week) and your tutor/social bit still gets addressed? It sounds to me like your current status is like that of me and the gym until recently--I used to try to do so much at the gym that I wound up not going at all. Now that I've cut back on my intended 'work out', I actually *go*, with the result that I actually *do* more exercise than I did when I planned the 'harder' workout.
Yeah I normally do the self-studying anyways, except here recently when I really haven't been doing much anything at all. I had been attending a little small group with people we meet, talk, eat, discuss things together but that's gone for the holidays.
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Is it for the socializing?
Is it to hear some old dude read you stuff out of a book?
Is it to get in touch with your God?
Do you think you can't read your book, ponder religious philosophy, and commune with your religion's view of the divine on your own on Saturday night?
If you have a religion, you don't need a Church. Study its philosophy, try to live it during the week, and then review the results in view of your religion's ideals at the time you designate within your schedule. All this other mumbo-jumbo is really a design to prop up power structures and get donations that tend to wind up in extravagance instead of real charity. Churches are man-made.
It's good to check your ideas with others from time to time so you don't wander off into la-la-land, but you don't need a church to tell you what to think about your God(s). The folk who tell you it's a 'sin' to skip Sunday school probably get paid to teach it.
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Haven't been in a while though.
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It sounds to me like your current status is like that of me and the gym until recently--I used to try to do so much at the gym that I wound up not going at all. Now that I've cut back on my intended 'work out', I actually *go*, with the result that I actually *do* more exercise than I did when I planned the 'harder' workout.
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