Zone1 Should a Christian go to Church ("church") every Sunday-Poll?

[Bleipriester]

Right. They are lovely people w/o doing anything!!!!!!

Yikes.. .wouldn't know that by me..

But it is true. You can honor the seventh day everywhere. This is Protestantism.

 

[lg325]

no demon? You have no demon?

Well, you are blessed... LOL

(I know you meant No denom...)

Baptist denomination I am a member of a small independent congregation that was dissolved back in the 1970s my name is still on the books. I was Baptized by the Holy Spirit as a teen. I was as it is said Born Again.

 

[JohnDB]

I go most every Sunday....
Because its important to me. That's where my friends are. Why wouldn't I go?

 

[jackflash]

i do not attend church, because i feel organized religion is too political & incorporate their own doctrine that is all too often removed from hat religion & spirituality is meant to be.

I hang out with our Holy Ghost 7 days per week(I'm NEVER alone), like I got a 24/7 "Hot Line" to our Boss/Son like keeps me from getting into trouble!

 

[GLASNOST]

Should a Christian go to Church ("church") every Sunday?​

If you think it helps, why not? How often do people pay to go to a psychiatrist?

 

[forkintheroad7]

Baptist denomination I am a member of a small independent congregation that was dissolved back in the 1970s my name is still on the books. I was Baptized by the Holy Spirit as a teen. I was as it is said Born Again.

The Catholics call that "spirit filled"

A lot of Catholics call being baptized "born again" because of the scripture that says you must be born again of water and the Holy Spirit...

 

[forkintheroad7]

If you think it helps, why not? How often do people pay to go to a psychiatrist?

good point. I had some psyche (rather, relationship) issues years ago but could never find a therapist I felt I could trust... not surprising because I don't trust anyone...

No worries, Jesus seemed to say

Here I am

The Real Presence of Christ is the best therapy known to man... also probably the most neglected... sadly.

 

[Dekster]

I'm just wondering how many Christians go to Church (or what they call such) every Sunday, without fail, or do you just go sporadically, when you feel like it... and why?

Do whatever works for you and don't fret about it. Churches run the gauntlet in my area. A lady I worked with went to a church where their main service was on Thursday evening because that was when they could get enough people willing to come to justify heating up or cooling down the sanctuary.

 

[forkintheroad7]

I hang out with our Holy Ghost 7 days per week(I'm NEVER alone), like I got a 24/7 "Hot Line" to our Boss/Son like keeps me from getting into trouble!

This hit home because before I became a practicing Catholic (was raised Catholic more/less), I had many problems and difficulties... or trouble, as you call it. I didn't have a clue back then, even though I never veered too far from my beliefs (except in this one way but that was my downfall).

If people (I speak of young people especially) would turn to Jesus (the Real Presence) they would feel no need for drugs or alcohol or perverse sex (defined as: any sex outside of marriage)

 

[forkintheroad7]

Do whatever works for you and don't fret about it. Churches run the gauntlet in my area. A lady I worked with went to a church where their main service was on Thursday evening because that was when they could get enough people willing to come to justify heating up or cooling down the sanctuary.

Yeh, sometimes practical matters can be a real bummer. But at least there was one day...

 

[GLASNOST]

good point. I had some psyche (rather, relationship) issues years ago but could never find a therapist I felt I could trust... not surprising because I don't trust anyone...

No worries, Jesus seemed to say

Here I am

The Real Presence of Christ is the best therapy known to man... also probably the most neglected... sadly.

I go to the Black Sea of Bulgaria twice each year. I am going next week, as a matter of fact. A friend of mine always asks me to bring back a specific kind of vitamin tablets that cannot be bought here at home. Personally, I think the tablets are placebos but my friend likes them and he is convinced that they help him so why should I criticise?

 

[forkintheroad7]

I go to the Black Sea of Bulgaria twice each year. I am going next week, as a matter of fact. A friend of mine always asks me to bring back a specific kind of vitamin tablets that cannot be bought here at home. Personally, I think the tablets are placebos but my friend likes them and he is convinced that they help him so why should I criticise?

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I can't comment.. never heard of the stuff..

 

[GLASNOST]

I go to the Black Sea of Bulgaria twice each year. I am going next week, as a matter of fact. A friend of mine always asks me to bring back a specific kind of vitamin tablets that cannot be bought here at home. Personally, I think the tablets are placebos but my friend likes them and he is convinced that they help him so why should I criticise?

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I can't comment..

You don't need to. It's not for you or for I to judge.

 

[Dekster]

Yeh, sometimes practical matters can be a real bummer. But at least there was one day...

Somewhere along the way, churches in my area stopped having revivals and started having splittings every 5 years or so. The end result is a lot of these little congregations have died off or are in the process of dying off pretty quickly. They can't afford to keep up a building and some can't even afford to rent a place of their own. A neighbor couple does church in their preacher's living room now since they are down to less than a dozen members. Even our church (United Methodist) is tearing itself apart at the seams. The one with the stateliest building has gotten so small they don't hold services. They just maintain the building to have really nice funerals when another one of them dies.

 

[forkintheroad7]

Somewhere along the way, churches in my area stopped having revivals and started having splittings every 5 years or so. The end result is a lot of these little congregations have died off or are in the process of dying off pretty quickly. They can't afford to keep up a building and some can't even afford to rent a place of their own. A neighbor couple does church in their preacher's living room now since they are down to less than a dozen members. Even our church (United Methodist) is tearing itself apart at the seams. The one with the stateliest building has gotten so small they don't hold services. They just maintain the building to have really nice funerals when another one of them dies.

Well, I would say that this kind of thing is the result of the apostate Martin Luther and his rebellion against Christ's True Church but nobody wants to hear it... so... I guess they won't hear it...

 

[ding]

Somewhere along the way, churches in my area stopped having revivals and started having splittings every 5 years or so. The end result is a lot of these little congregations have died off or are in the process of dying off pretty quickly. They can't afford to keep up a building and some can't even afford to rent a place of their own. A neighbor couple does church in their preacher's living room now since they are down to less than a dozen members. Even our church (United Methodist) is tearing itself apart at the seams. The one with the stateliest building has gotten so small they don't hold services. They just maintain the building to have really nice funerals when another one of them dies.

Predictable surprises.

 

[initforme]

One neednt go to church to worship. Worship can occur quietly by onesself. Theres no one size fits all. I can honestly say ive never attended nor understood the need to socially interact with other christians. I used to attend regularly, give regularly, without recog izing fellow parishoners.

 

[initforme]

Well, I would say that this kind of thing is the result of the apostate Martin Luther and his rebellion against Christ's True Church but nobody wants to hear it... so... I guess they won't hear it...

Now Martin Luther is bad? Holy wow, no pun intended. Does that mean lutherans arent real christians?

 

[jackflash]

This hit home because before I became a practicing Catholic (was raised Catholic more/less), I had many problems and difficulties... or trouble, as you call it. I didn't have a clue back then, even though I never veered too far from my beliefs (except in this one way but that was my downfall).

If people (I speak of young people especially) would turn to Jesus (the Real Presence) they would feel no need for drugs or alcohol or perverse sex (defined as: any sex outside of marriage)

I was employed by the Catholics for a while @ the St Michaels Academy. The Catholics I was employed by were & still are of the traditional Catholic faith(Mass spoken in Latin). The structure I worked upon primarily is still called the "Saint Michaels Academy."

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Constructed in 1916, Mount Saint Michael, or the “Mount” as it is known, has a unique history. For more than 50 years, it was an almost self-contained city for about 200 Jesuit seminarians. Then in…

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Below, A face(though much older now) & voice I will always remember;



At 8:21 into the vid below is another face I will never forget;



The Catholics up here in the Spokane Washington area are turning out 3.5 to 4.0 students not only from the St. Michaels Academy but from the Gonzaga school system as well. All that the rec. drugs & freaking alcohol plus the cheap sex turns out are future candidates for the sidewalk tent cities.

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[GLASNOST]

One neednt go to church to worship. Worship can occur quietly by onesself. .

"Occur"? You seem to think worship is foisted rather than fostered.