Put on your best to go into the house of the Lord, pay your tithes, hear the good word, sing and clap in praise...I always leave feeling refreshed...and new. Just in an overall good mood.
I didn't feel the urge to start going to church again until my son was born...we (he and I) tried out a couple churchs...it didn't work out. I was used to my church (which has the biggest congregation in the city...because now it's "cool" to say they belong to that church...but like I said, I was there since I was 6...but that's neither here nor there) I could go into church and people would know my face...sometimes my name but no one pressured me into joining or ask me a million questions about my religious past...I would go, get my church on, and come home. Done deal.
But the churchs I have tried....boy let me tell ya...
- One asked me "Have you ever spoke in tongues? No? It comes with spiritual enlightenment" and then they laid hands on me and told me it was okay I didn't speak in tongues...
- One asked me every single Sunday that I came when I was going to join their church...EVERY...SINGLE...SUNDAY.
- One church came to my house and dropped off candy to thank me for coming...it was nice...but still creepy.
- One church attempted to minister me over the phone...while I was at work...and I told them that I was at work "Oh it'll only take a minute"....yeah it took 20
It's so hard to find a church where I can just go and worship without the cult feeling that comes with so many churchs...I would go back to the church I'm most familiar with but it's all the way on the other side of town...a good 20 minute ride or so on top of the fact that it has become a mega church like you see on TV
And that for some reason just kinda rubs me the wrong way...I like a medium sized church...where they know you...but don't really know you...does that make sense?
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It makes perfect sense... In fact, that how my church was until they open their new facility. However, I like the message that's being sent forth when I go there, so I go for the word not anything else other than that. I've been in some of the Churches you've mentioned, tho. Hella creepy, but I guest that's how it's always been? I dunno...
I understand. When I went away to school there used to always be fliers for different churches in the dorm with the pick-up times. Some dorm mates and I decided on this one church because they enticed us with a home-cooked soul food meal after the service (don't judge us. We were hungry college kids) The minute we step foot into that "church" we knew it was kooky....this one guy kept shaking and jumping the whole service seemingly in "praise" but it weirded us out. It really had that cult feel and I don't even think we ate the food either. After that experienced, I neglected church badly while I was in school. When I graduated and moved back home, I fell back into the routine at my home church and that's where I'm most comfortable.
that's how church has become. all cult like and I can't deal with that. I love the church i grew up in but they start way too early for me and baby(9am on a weekend is not where it's at) so I've been frequenting church with my BFF. She doesn't to a baptist church which is not what I grew up in but her pastor is awesome so I keep coming back. I say just go wherever you feel comfortable and it'll work out.
@Ice I wonder if it's always been like that...that's a good damned question.
@Starrla yeah...I wouldn't have ate the food either **shivers**
@Krissy That's good that you found a good church where you are comfortable at...hopefully I'll find the same soon
@Anonymous LOL! Thanks...I appreciate it...cept for you talking about my smart mouth :-P
I feel you. Im fortunate that the same small church my parent got married in I still attend and its remained the same. Same folk just older now......larger churches have never been my thing or the obsessive over the top creepy cult style.
@Nightfall that is fortunate indeed
i'm very funny about churches. growing up i went to church on & off. i got a girlfriend who father was preacher i became one of those church boys. was really into. went to all the camps, was over youth ministries, abstained from sex for a LONG TIME..till i broke up with her. after that my aunt got us kicked out of our home church with her fuckery antics. and i haven't been able to find another one. i hate big churches. i hate churches that ppl don't know that paster personally. or each other for that matter. i'm actually lutheran. yes a black lutheran, very hard to find other churches that don't have all the same fuckery filled members from your previous church. and i don't play with pastors. you can't just be anybody. you can't just be regular. if you living your life like me..why the fuck am i going to your church?...we could just meet at my house if that's the case.
i hate materialism, i hate messy ppl, and i hate ppl who take what man says the word. finding a church is extremely hard for me. that's why i've found it hard to attend one for a while now. but i'm looking..but till then me and Jesus will continue having our homeboy chats everyday.
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