COMMENTS:
The false christians will be 'Left Behind'
I don't believe that heaven waits, for only those who congregate
^sorry about that, putting in choice was an afterthought
Voted : Some people are only Christian when it is convenient.
Pretty much why I left the Warm Fold of Holy Mother Church. The last time I attended Mass, standing outside the church, I overheard people saying truly vile things about other parishoners. Once inside though, those same people had the temetrity to address those they had just slighted so viciously as "Brother" or "Sister", and fake expressions of affection toward them. Faith and its associated tenets aren't something you leave at the nave of the church to pick up every Sunday. They're meant to be carried out into the world, to be shared and spread. At least that's how Father David taught me it should be.
Voted : I don't believe that heaven waits, for only those who congregate
Just a guess. It's hard to ask all those people.
Voted : Some people are spiritual, but don't believe in organized religion
I don't believe you have to go to church to be a believer.
Voted : I don't believe that heaven waits, for only those who congregate
What Truth said. I know a great many who not only claim to be, but are Christian. Yet they don't go to church, mainly for that very reason.
Too many churches are more akin to social clubs rather than being a place of fellowship through God and worship. Many would be surprised at how many Christians actually feel that way and refuse to attend.
Years ago, my granfather was attending church when a dirty looking drifter walked in and sat down on one of the pews. After a few minutes, the preacher paused in his sermon and asked the drifter to leave. My grandfather got up and walked out behind him. And never went back. That really says alot about those who didn't walk out also.
Besides, a "church" as defined in the Bible is not a building, but a body of believers. Even Jesus preached against religion.
Voted : I don't believe that heaven waits, for only those who congregate
^ exactly what grumpy person said :)
Grumpys grandfather did the right thing.
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