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What has been your past experience in local church attendance? Explain the positive and the negative.
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Been in the same Church for the last 10 years and it has been a great source of encouragement, accountability and growth. I have led in many different areas and it has helped me find out how I am bent. Relationships are forged there and are super important for my spiritual health.
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I have had both positive and negative experiences, and realize that both come with living in community with other fallen human beings.
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Lifelong church attender. Willing to miss if needed for rest, but dedicated to being there for worship, fellowship, growth, opportunities to serve.
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I have attended a mega church where attendance is huge and I have attended a small church where the attendance is quite small. One benefit of small church is the ability to impart the teaching of the word of God and other essential activities for individual spiritual growth easily. As the attendance increases, it becomes more cumbersome.
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I am very regular in church attendance and have some appointments of responsibility there too. It helps that we can relate to some people in a small cell group so that there is more personal involvement and care for one another. Humanly speaking, there are moments when we feel lazy or unmotivated to attend church (e.g. during the COVID lockdowns), but if we have a post of responsibility, it helps to keep us going there. Though this may not be the highest motive for going to church, the passion and energy will eventually come back again, as we keep at it.
Generally speaking, church attendance is a positive experience for me. There was a time in a previous church, where the leaders were domineering in terminating what I believe God had started me in doing, and they also did not visit to care for my father who was suffering in dementia, dysphagia, suicidal tendency, etc. But those days are over, and I’m happily settled many years in another church where I continue to serve God and men. So I believe that whatever negative experience one has are probably the exception. Generally, going to church should be a positive experience, and it is.