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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 09:13 PM Jun 2013

Why I Lack Enthusiasm About the Church

It is 11 am on a Sunday morning. 3 minutes late, as usual, I slip into a middle-back pew and finger my keys restlessly. Did I really need to apply makeup before noon on a weekend?

I'm an active college-educated young professional. I love Jesus, but sometimes I feel badly because I'm not excited about the church. I scan the congregants. As usual, mostly senior citizens and a few young families. A few sullen teenagers. These people don't know me, I think.

They'll never get me. Does God have to have me here?

Exactly 59 minutes later, we are all out the door. I am thinking the same thing I think every week - really, I didn't get much from that. The knowledge that my real spiritual high will come this afternoon, on a training run in breezy sunshine with my iPod and worship music, nags me.

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Why I Lack Enthusiasm About the Church (Original Post) SecularMotion Jun 2013 OP
I sounds to me like this person needs to find another church Curmudgeoness Jun 2013 #1
I always feel good after church Freddie Jun 2013 #2
I love going to church and feel good about going. hrmjustin Jun 2013 #3
She should stop wasting her time there. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2013 #4
You avoid them? I just have to ask how posting in this group accomplishes that goal? cbayer Jun 2013 #5
She articulates some of the reasons for the rising "nones" really well. cbayer Jun 2013 #6

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
1. I sounds to me like this person needs to find another church
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 09:34 PM
Jun 2013

that will give more of what she wants from a church. I cannot imagine why anyone continues to go to a church that has nothing to offer them.

Freddie

(9,231 posts)
2. I always feel good after church
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 11:18 PM
Jun 2013

Glad I went, even if I wasn't enthused about going in the first place or if I didn't follow the sermon. But I love my church and feel like I really belong there.

 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
3. I love going to church and feel good about going.
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 12:30 AM
Jun 2013

Sounds to me this person either needs to find a new church or take a break for awhile.

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
4. She should stop wasting her time there.
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 04:08 PM
Jun 2013

Xtianity is a primitive syncretic (made up from many pagan sources) religion that is not adequate for the 21st century. No matter how much they try to make it hip, the book of superstitious goat herders is not good guidance.

Maybe she should investigate living her life by rational values, not by praying to a God that may or may not exist.

I've never seen any evidence that god exists. I've seen no evidence that prayer is more than talking to yourself. Christians are the most negative people I've ever seen, and I avoid them. Which is very difficult to do.


cbayer

(146,218 posts)
6. She articulates some of the reasons for the rising "nones" really well.
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 04:34 PM
Jun 2013

Maybe she is lacking in choices, but I wish she could find a congregation that speaks to her and resolves some of the issues she has with her current church.

I predict a rise in the kinds of organizations that would better suit her and so many like her, but they may be very slow to come to some areas.

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