For some of us who have been so habituated to ...institutional,
...highly structured,
...profess-ionally led,
...building-centered Christianity,
...it feels like we are abandoning the Lord when we decide to simplify our Christian walk and simply walk the roads with him and talk as to a close friend all day long.
...highly structured,
...profess-ionally led,
...building-centered Christianity,
...it feels like we are abandoning the Lord when we decide to simplify our Christian walk and simply walk the roads with him and talk as to a close friend all day long.
It has been reinforced in our psyche (over thousand of years of religiousy thinking) that “good Christians” go to church every week?: But tell me friends ..how can the church go to the church? That's a puzzler if ever there was one: I don't want to miss or forsake the asembling of myself with the Lord above all: And where ever 2 or 3 or 53 are together in His presence it's wonderful:
Ceasing to follow that routine feels very strange at first and the churchgoers in your family will begin to express concerns about your “backsliding” when they note you aren’t going to church regularly as you once did. That's strange as in their hearts they know something big and glorious and clean and Godly has happened to you? Backsliding? Are you mad?
Ceasing to follow that routine feels very strange at first and the churchgoers in your family will begin to express concerns about your “backsliding” when they note you aren’t going to church regularly as you once did. That's strange as in their hearts they know something big and glorious and clean and Godly has happened to you? Backsliding? Are you mad?
Those who have the church-as-a-building-with-religious-programs-you-go-to mindset cannot conceive that relaxed, simple conversation going beyond surface banter that results in everyone involved loving God and each other more deeply can be “church.”
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