Place of Worship

Hell no. It's a waste of time.

I ain't wasting all my time worrying about what will happen after I die. I'll be a black liquid and pile of bones and become a wonderful part of the nitrogen cycle.

That's it and I'm pretty happy about it. Yeah, heaven would be great but I've been a bad girl and it just ain't gonna happen.

 

I was raised in a Baptist church, but not "raised Baptist".

Currently attend a Non-Denomenational church and I go most Sundays. (I know y'all can't believe it, but it's true)

My relationship with Yeshua is of the utmost importance to me, so I will continue to refine my walk with him to improve myself as man and constructive contributor in this world.

Be easy family:smt025

 

+1 Intrigue. I have to admit that i have not really attended church since i've gone to college, but that's mostly because i haven't found a good church home yet. Once i move away from the college town, and get into the real world, i hope to find a really good church home to settle down in, so i can start my service for God (whatever that may be). I know i screw up sometimes (a lot of times lol) but having a meaningful relationship with Jesus is of the utmost importance to me.

 

Thanks to all of you for answering. It was a charismatic congregational church and it was pretty cool, it is one the list of posiblities, but I am mvoing soon, so I don't think it will be a practical option, but one like it where I am mvoing may be.

 

I'm Russian Orthodox, baptized secretly around 1979. I live in New Jersey and I love to go to church on Sundays, that's why I always kick myself if I oversleep. I also feel comfortable at the Catholic church. That's the two places where I feel comfortable praying - the Orthodox church and the Catholic church, the Orthodox church being number one. I spent a lot of time in church when I was getting over my divorce. I have a strong devotion to Our Lady, I wear her miraculous medal and I feel her protection over me, so I'm happy that I was named after her. I don't get too deep into church dogmas, I follow my feeling of what's the right thing to do.

 

We all screw up but you're a dynamic brutha that has a lot to offer the world. Just stay in prayer and fast. It's often frustrating finding a church home you're comfortable with, but be assured he'll lead you where he has willed for you to be.

When you think no one is paying attention, there's somebody looking up to you, so just continue being who you are bro.;-)

 

Thanks Intrigue. You are the man. Fasting is something that i definitely need to get into a habit of doing. I spend way too much time surfing the internet, and watching movies and such. You know, just putting things into my spirit that shouldn't be there. So, it will be good for me to get away from all that junk, and just fast for a while.

Finding a church home for me is something that i always look forward to. My mom would take me to her favorite church, and my sister would take me to hers. They were all cool, but i never got the feeling that "I" belonged there. I'm an adult now, and i know that God will lead me to the place of worship that i'm meant to be in, so i can start performing my service for God. I feel as though, that's the reason why i was born, and i'm very anxious to get started doing that, whatever it may be.

 

me-I go to church 3 times a week, am a born again christian so thats why i go, it is apart of my faith and who i am

 

I will be fasting this year for Easter i was thinking 3 days but am not a baby so i will be fasting for all the holy week ..its been a long time and i feel i want to do something this year.
holy thurday i will dyed red eggs, i usualy do this every year

also i will go to the church at the evening its good to be that day at the church for the the service of the Twelve Gospels
and at holy friday no need to explain everyone know this ..i will love to go all the week but 2 days good enough.

now i need to go and buy a decent dress lol

 

I don't.Im baptised Protestant but to be honest my faith and religious belief arent that strong. Respect to everyone who does have a strong faith and religious belief but it's not for me.
I used to go to church in past but found that rather boring and dry.

 

Christian non denomination, I go to church every sunday but its more than going to church I have a strong relationship with Jesus.

 

Glad you go for god, rather than to be seen like the rest of the fake fucks I would see at church.

 

i was raised fundy too, back slid for years in University and grad school but came back to it, and wouldnt leave it. but same upbringing as you said, my parents are even Missionaries in latin america for the last 25 years and ultra conservative Repbulicans

 

I was raised Presbyterian and went every week. As most kids do, I drifted away and stopped going when my parents couldn't force me any more. I don't feel as though I am any different, I just never found church relevant or useful. I dislike most of the people that go. I feel like its better to stay away from that type of environment than become resentful of it and let it damage my faith.

My aim is to find a church that I feel comfortable in and that fulfills my needs. I am yet to do that.

When I was in Oxford, I went to my cousin's church. I enjoyed it and felt like I learnt more during this one sermon than in many years of childhood. I now listen to their podcasts from time to time.

I love the concept and idea of places of worship. I visit as many as possible. I thoroughly enjoyed visiting many cathedrals and churches on my holiday. I am looking forward to visiting areas of the world with a different major religion and attending their places of worship also.

 

A very good article on the emergence of a "post-Christian" America:

The End of Christian America

The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.
Jon Meacham
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Apr 13, 2009

It was a small detail, a point of comparison buried in the fifth paragraph on the 17th page of a 24-page summary of the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey. But as R. Albert Mohler Jr.—president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest on earth—read over the document after its release in March, he was struck by a single sentence. For a believer like Mohler—a starched, unflinchingly conservative Christian, steeped in the theology of his particular province of the faith, devoted to producing ministers who will preach the inerrancy of the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the only means to eternal life—the central news of the survey was troubling enough: the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has nearly doubled since 1990, rising from 8 to 15 percent. Then came the point he could not get out of his mind: while the unaffiliated have historically been concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, the report said, "this pattern has now changed, and the Northeast emerged in 2008 as the new stronghold of the religiously unidentified." As Mohler saw it, the historic foundation of America's religious culture was cracking.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583/output/print