StingerSplash
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Post by StingerSplash on Sept 18, 2010 8:42:50 GMT -5
I believe in God, and Jesus, and I love going to church. I lead worship at my church, so I'm really involved in it.
BUT, I think that the reason that alot of people are turned off by church is that they think of it as a 'duty.' If you read the Bible, Jesus says that the 'people' are the church. Not the actual building, rather the actual assembly of Christians.
Here lately my church has been averaging around 500 per week. We just hired a new Minister a few months ago, who is preaching in an untucked dress shirts and jeans. Imagine how the older people in our church felt. lol. But, he's got a 'Come As You Are' drive, where it doesn't matter what you dress like, what you look like, whether you have tattoos, and so many other things that typical churches preach against. He said one week: "I want the long-haired hippies sitting by the three-piece suits." He's a guy who truly pursues God and wants others to as well.
In all honesty though, my church is fun. We play up-beat, fast, contemporary music. We really have dynamic worship. Our Youth Group is acutally called 'Epic' and it has been a great success in bringing in youth.
So, yeah, I love my church. Not for the building, but because of the fellowship that I can have inside that building.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Sept 18, 2010 9:23:17 GMT -5
Church shouldn't be boring at all. Ever. If God is alive and he's the head of the body then the church should be alive as well.
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The Mountain King
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Post by The Mountain King on Sept 18, 2010 10:55:17 GMT -5
I don't like going to certain churches, but some i will go to.
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Woodie
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Post by Woodie on Sept 18, 2010 12:16:53 GMT -5
i strongly believe in gid but i dont like going to church i sometimes feel im a bad person for not going tho  |
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Sept 18, 2010 12:19:43 GMT -5
i strongly believe in gid but i dont like going to church i sometimes feel im a bad person for not going tho What religion is gid from? XD |
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Post by Iron Bison on Sept 18, 2010 14:06:33 GMT -5
If you do believe in God, I think it's kinda silly to think you can ONLY worship him in a building every Sunday morning. You don't need church to believe and worship God. You're way off base dude. Well, there's a lot of people I know that are "Oh, good thing I go Sunday, then I'm good for the rest of the week" like it's their excuse for not thanking or praying to God the rest of the week cause they already did it on Sunday. I've know more people who think of it as a chore and not as an opportunity to be with other people with whom they can talk to about God. |
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Post by spamdfms101 on Sept 18, 2010 14:27:19 GMT -5
No because it is boring.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Sept 18, 2010 14:49:27 GMT -5
You're way off base dude. Well, there's a lot of people I know that are "Oh, good thing I go Sunday, then I'm good for the rest of the week" like it's their excuse for not thanking or praying to God the rest of the week cause they already did it on Sunday. I've know more people who think of it as a chore and not as an opportunity to be with other people with whom they can talk to about God. People who say that sort of thing are wrong. I've never heard of any religion that expects you to only follow it one day of the week. Christians are supposed to go to church every Sunday because of the fellowship, but anyone who calls them self a Christian but only acts like it one day a week isn't a true Christian. |
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Post by J12 on Sept 18, 2010 23:44:13 GMT -5
I went to a Catholic elementary school, not necessarily because my parents were religious, they weren't, but because the curriculum was far more challenging and the school had a history of producing great students.
We were required to learn religion and go to morning mass a couple times of month as a class. I hated it, but it became a part of life during my early school years.
I don't at all regret that my parents sent me there, I made some of my closest friends there and got a great education, which allowed me to be well ahead of the curve once I got into the public school system in junior high and high school.
I haven't been to church for a mass since my final required one in fifth grade. I've only stepped foot in a church once since then, and that was for my senior year baccalaureate, which is regarded as a non-religious ceremony.
I'm not at all religious, and so I have no reason to attend church. To each his own, though.
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Post by thepedigree22 on Sept 19, 2010 10:32:28 GMT -5
i don't mind going I like going most of the times.
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Post by K5 on Sept 19, 2010 11:46:50 GMT -5
can't stand it. i still go on christmas and easter to appease my family, but holy  is it boring. |
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xReyAlsanecx
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Post by xReyAlsanecx on Sept 19, 2010 14:36:20 GMT -5
I hate church,luckily my parents arent religious and never made me go after I had my confirmation. Since then the only time I've been to a church is for funerals.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2010 15:43:08 GMT -5
I think religion can be used for the same intensity (good or bad), as far as left politics can. Religious people urge for the return of Jesus/coming of the Messiah, etc., where the world will be perfect, no earthly possessions, etc.; the far left wants the same, just through the rise of Marxism (not forced Soviet Communism though, as most leftists are against that). Most wanna change the world; religious Christians become international missionaries, leftists might join the peace core or move overseas in some other capacity.
I have friends and read literature from both camps, and I find them eerily similar even though they are so different. If you have Richard Dawkins and Peter Singer sitting there telling you that Charles Darwin is the greatest man ever to live and that great apes should have human rights extended to them - and they're using all their passion to go forward with that message, and then you have a born again Christian spending all his time and energy telling the world that abortion is a horrible thing, both are basically the same; willing to use all their passion and energy on some great message, the only different is what the great message is. It's all poetry, I dig passion.
The people at my church are cool, I like it.
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