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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/2/2009 7:08:18 PM
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evry1needsgod
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RC,
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Number one reason this time of year is deer hunting.
And sad thing is, this is the most pathetic excuse I've ever heard.
I'm a die-hard deer hunter myself. My work schedule this week has permitted me to be able to hunt every day this week, and I intend to take advantage of such an opportunity (actually, I JUST got back from hunting). However, last week I was not quite as fortunate, and had very little time to hunt (work schedule combined with the awful rain last week left me with only 1 day to hunt). Yet I still went to church yesterday for both services, and I will attend church this coming Sunday also (and Wednesday for that matter). I can only pray that the Lord refuses to bless my hunts if I make them more important than the Lord.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/2/2009 7:25:40 PM
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PinkCarnations
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RC,
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Number one reason this time of year is deer hunting.
And sad thing is, this is the most pathetic excuse I've ever heard.
Some people's schedules might only allow them one or two days out of the whole season to hunt. If they have to hunt to put supper on the table, are you going to still call that pathetic?
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/2/2009 9:37:51 PM
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Because I'm treated differently.
I'm almost always met with the "I'm wiser than you" attitude and get treated like an infant.
I don't like being made to feel like I'm less of a person because I've not been baptized or because I don't know hymns or passages off the top of my head.
I just don't bother to subjecting myself to that kind of unpleasantness anymore.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/2/2009 11:24:04 PM
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 12:22:09 AM
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What are some of the reasons that someone might not go to church?
I do not attend church because I attended a laglistic church that tried to zap the joy out of my life. I did attend others and even one I became a member of that treated me like I wasn't, until I stopped tithing. Then chastized and told to quit my job, because I had to work Sundays and Wednesdays (I was working in the medical field, Oh excuse me for trying to save a life! How dare me!!!) I did find 1 I liked where I got married in and had my son dedicated in, but moved to another state. The churches I have attended so far have been lame in many ways.
What do you say to/think about a Christian who is a regular attender, but has been missing the last several weeks/months?The same thing that was or wasn't said to me, nothing
What do you say to/think about Christians who don't attend church at all?
People can say whatever they want to me. I Worship Jesus at home, I have fellowship with friends either in person or on the phone and I teach my child about Him daily.
What do you say to/think about Christians who are sporadic in their church attendance?Did you find Jesus there?
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 12:23:00 AM
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Another acceptable reason to not go to church would be a family emergency...or a church family emergency. Also, sharing the gospel with the lost. If Sunday is the only day that you can meet with someone outside the church and the Spirit is leading you to share the gospel with this person, then go and do it.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 2:27:19 AM
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What are some of the reasons that someone might not go to church?
What do you say to/think about a Christian who is a regular attender, but has been missing the last several weeks/months?
What do you say to/think about Christians who don't attend church at all?
What do you say to/think about Christians who are sporadic in their church attendance?
I'm posting blindly here - just wanted to answer the question. Hope I'm not interrupting the flow of the thread.
1. There are many reasons why people don't go to church. Some people are convicted, some think it is boring, some have a hard time getting there because of transportation issues, some people have to work on Sunday to make ends meet, some have been abused in church, some are burnt out, some have spouses that prevent them from going. There are some who never developed the habit of going to church, some are sick, some have family emergencies, there are probably as many reasons as there are people.
2. To a person who attends regularly but who has been missing for a while, I'd probably reach out to them - see if they are ok, let them know that I miss seeing them. That person might need to take some time away, might be attending another church, might have had some sort of change that makes it hard for them to attend church for a while. I believe that God sometimes calls you away for a season so that you can get closer to Him, especially if you are always serving or doing something in the church.
3. To the christian who never goes, I would probably want to gently find out why and see if there is some way that I can pray for them about it. Sometimes people don't develop the habit right after becoming a Christian, the devil gets a foothold and although they are believers, they stay away. Sometimes people have been burned or abused by the church. Sometimes the churches around a person don't necessarily have what that person needs. Sometimes people are lazy. Sometimes people are living in sin and are afraid of judgement. Sometimes people meet with other christians, but aren't necessarily in what other people might call a "church" - in terms of a building and programs and the like. I stayed away from church for a good year after I was pretty much worked to death. I felt like a battery - and when I was no longer useful I was just tossed away. So, when I would go to churches, I felt like they just wanted to do the same thing - use me to fuel their vision, join the children's ministry, go cook something - not help me develop so that I can do what God would want for me to do in that congregation. During that year, I went to church sometimes - probably about twice a month. I eventually found a church that I felt called to and that nurtures believers to grow into their own individual calls. It focuses on us hearing from the Lord and developing deep roots in Him as well as in us serving one another and people outside of the church. It is also a lot more focused on prayer and the gifts of the spirit. We serve because we want to, not because we have to or because someone guilted us into doing it. It has been a tremendous blessing to me and to others.
4. I don't think that I can really say too much about someone who has sporadic attendance. Now, I pretty much go to church every Sunday, though not the same church. My real church doesn't meet on Sunday but on another night during the week. So, people watching me from the outside would probably judge me and think I'm not going to church, when in actuality, I'm with believers fellowshipping, worshipping, and learning at least two, and sometimes three days out of the week. But in the past, I've been judgemental about Christians who only went sporadically also. There is a lady that I'd judged. However, my judgement of her was legalistic, because she was spending time with the Lord everyday - quality time - and she was assembling with other Christians - just not in the way I thought she should. She is being used by God in a more quiet way - praying for people faithfully. So I was wrong to judge her.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 9:15:48 AM
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Church is the body of Christ. WE should assemble there to be with fellow Christians. But, we should not judge those who miss church. We don't know the reason, but like some say here on posting, "We missed you at church, hope all is well?" If they tell us they do, if not that's that. :) Hebrew's 10:24-25 "Let us think of way's to movtivate one another to acts of love and good works.25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near." Ephesians 5:23 Christ is the head of the church. Colossians 1:18 Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. So he is first in everything. I"m sure there's more verses. These are the one that come to mind.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 2:35:52 PM
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Is it ok that i didnt go last sunday because my daughter was in the hospital with surgical complications? is that ok with everyone??!! ..again i say...show me the verse that says how often we should go. no one has been able to do that. because it isnt there.
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Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 2:57:14 PM
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PinkCarnations
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Is it ok that i didnt go last sunday because my daughter was in the hospital with surgical complications? is that ok with everyone??!! ..again i say...show me the verse that says how often we should go. no one has been able to do that. because it isnt there.
I'm OK with that.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 3:15:39 PM
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I didn't go last Sunday either. I had flu symptoms and didn't want to risk passing on a deadly disease to the elderly in our congregation. It wasn't an easy choice to stay home, since I'm the pastor's wife and I lead worship and teach kids' church, but I felt it was the loving thing to do.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 3:56:54 PM
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What are some of the reasons that someone might not go to church?
What do you say to/think about a Christian who is a regular attender, but has been missing the last several weeks/months?
What do you say to/think about Christians who don't attend church at all?
What do you say to/think about Christians who are sporadic in their church attendance?
There are too many reasons why one would not go to church.
If a regular attendee had been missing for a few weeks or months, I would find out why and see if they need help.
A Christian who doesn't attend church is in serious danger of being led away by his/her own desires. That is a dangerous place to be.
I have been sporadic in my own attendance, so I don't know what I would say to myself... other than... get off your lazy rump and get to church.
The only real reason not to go would either be serious weather, or serious sickness. Other than that... any other reason is just an excuse.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/3/2009 4:50:52 PM
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I'll be honest, I haven't attended too much lately, because I am sick and tired of the "how to be a good person" sermons that honestly don't even require a Bible.
It's church-lite, and I am getting fed up.
It's been a struggle for me to move back to my hometown and re-attend this church. There is good reason why I left in the first place.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/4/2009 7:44:14 AM
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leftwing
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How sick is too sick to go to church?
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Exactly the same amount that would keep you from going to work, or sending your kids to school.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/4/2009 7:46:54 AM
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leftwing
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RC,
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Number one reason this time of year is deer hunting.
And sad thing is, this is the most pathetic excuse I've ever heard.
lMaybe not if you work all week, and its 6 hour drive to the Quchita National Forest where most folks from here hunt.
But as long as they bring me a back strap, I will not give them much grief. 
A lot of the families go for a week during what we call "Fall break" which is a week, usually in late October or earnly Novenber that school lets out.
And besides we are having a giant venison/wild boar chili dinner in December.
Thanks
RC
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/4/2009 9:32:15 AM
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I didnt go to church for three years because I had panic disorder and agorophobia. Was my bad? Show me the verse that says how often you must attend church. THERE ISNT ONE. Do you have to go Sunday morning, evenings and Wednesday night? Or is just Sunday acceptable? How often we substitute man made idea for the Gospel. There simply IS NOT a single verse in the Bible that says you HAVE to "go" to church. "forsake not the assembling of yourselves" is often used. Most Christians get together with other Christians at some point out of LOVE for Him, not out of obligation. As I mentioned my elderly Dad didnt go the last three years he lived, after my Mom had died. But he and I would discuss the Bible in his home (where two or three or gathered together, there I am in the midst of them!!!!) and he would worship and pray on Sunday mornings. No verses forbid such a practice. Our relationship with God is just that, a relationship..not a rigid list of "attend church weekly"...."pray three times a day"..etc.
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Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/4/2009 7:24:56 PM
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PinkCarnations
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I didnt go to church for three years because I had panic disorder and agorophobia. Was my bad?
Since I have those same issues going on right now, I don't think that makes you bad.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/4/2009 8:49:35 PM
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Hebrews 10:24-25 is a favorite. I think that it is okay if it is on a Sunday (the first day of the week), since that is when a lot of the early Christians got together, and that we should keep the sabbath (the seventh day of the week) as a day of rest. It is so cool that so many of our jobs in the USA allow for the weekend off - not just one day, but two!
Our pastor had a series on "Why" this and that practice of the Christian life: why go to church, why read the Bible, why pray, etc. It was really good. I wish I had all the notes here.
In the New Testament epistles there are a number of "one another" phrases. Try a Bible search using "one another" or "each other".
I'd say that just as we don't get to choose the members of our biological family, we don't get to choose the members of our spiritual family. We fellowship with the believers that God leads us to, not necessarily the ones that we always agree with. In many parts of the world, it is a luxury to actually know any believers at all. We should be being discipled, and we should be discipling.
In James 5:14-15 it says that the sick should call for the elders, not go to the elders.
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RE: Acceptable Reasons to NOT Go to Church. - 11/4/2009 11:02:02 PM
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Katie51
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I didnt go to church for three years because I had panic disorder and agorophobia. Was my bad?
Since I have those same issues going on right now, I don't think that makes you bad.
neither do i
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WE have no way of knowing but it would be interesting to know just how many people maybe tried to look up the above passage in their Bibles. If your one of them, (LOL) you should not only go to Church every Sunday, but also enroll in a good Bible School. 
I seek not to forsake my Church every day of the week by praying for my Pastor and my members at large. That`s every day, everywhere, and not just a certain day of the week called Sunday.
