OPINION (CL) – There’s a big difference between missing a Sunday and drifting from the church. Vacations travel for work, and kids have travel ball. That’s part of life. But when part of life, turns into a different life, it may be time to re-think your new trend and the possible results. A long-time friend and volunteer leader in his church had not attended in months. I asked him if something had upset him. He said, “No, I love my church. We just got busy, started missing here and there, and then, well you know, it was just easier not to go. Oh, and we watch online sometimes.”
We talked for a long time. It was a great conversation. He concluded by saying, “You know, I really don’t have a good reason for no longer attending church, I just got lazy. My family (they have three kids), and I will start again next week.” And they did. As human beings, we follow habits and patterns. When it comes to church, drift leads to distance and distance leads to disconnection. The point of weekly worship is not attendance; it’s participation in the body of Christ. Christianity was never designed to be an independent endeavor. God created us to be in relationship with Him and each other. He made us on purpose with a purpose, and we live that out best together. READ MORE
Over the past ten years, we attended five churches in our greater area of where we reside. The pulpit has lost it’s power, direction, has compromised the word, and no longer defends the word. Christians who were once saved, filled by the holy ghost, and speak with tongues as the bible directs, have compromised what they use to believe. Pastors are longer accountable to the people of the church and more importantly to God… The world has crept in to the pews and have taken over in all areas of the church…the church bends to the society and it’s compromised positions of homosexuality, same sex marriages, transgender, and the other queer ways of living. So, we have gone online and have enjoyed the teachings, and sermons from the pulpit again in locations we would not be able to attend personally. We miss the people of like mindedness. We attend churches throughout our area when possible, but we find we have to travel further out to locate something of resemblance to our faith in Christianity…there is a difference in the big city churches vs the little hometown types. We believe God has opened the door to the Internet churches so people can still have church on a different, but, safer level. As you know, the days are getting darker in the world and the days are getting shorter, make sure your salvation is in order with the Lord.