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What has been your past experience in local church attendance? Explain the positive and the negative.
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I have been to several different kind of churches. I was raised Catholic and received Christ their after my Priest got saved and led many to the Lord, including my Mom. My Mom then led us to Jesus. I was then in a Reformed Episcopal church, where I married my beloved husband who was raised Baptist. I’ve attended Presbyterian, Methodist, Nazarene, but where I feel most at ease are in Non-denominational Churches, because of the immense diversity there. My Dad entered the Cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses when I was 9 years old and so I was raised in a divided home where much controversy took place. But through much prayer and my Mom’s faithful love, Christ led my Dad to Himself after 22 years as a JW.
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Church teaches me good and bad perspectives and encourages to test it through reading the bible
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In the past, I’ve been involved in local churches were participation is asked for but there isn’t much of a sense of community and fellowshipping with other believers and caring for each others needs.
However, I now experience the beauty of local church attendance and how joyful it can be to serve and get to know, intimately, those a part of the body of Christ. I now know how beautiful God’s design of the local church is!
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The local church allowed God to place godly mentors around me who taught me how to study His Word and recognize His voice. The local church allowed me to discover my spiritual gifts and to learn how to walk in them as I served the body of Christ and used them to share the Gospel with those who crossed my path. The negative of past church experience is the declaring that I was accountable to the church, but the church did not share that same accountability to me. This should not be the case. It should go both ways.
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When I was younger church was something I had to do and it was something to check off the list. As I’ve gotten older, it has become more of something I want to do and to be a part of. I can’t just attend, I have to be a part of it as well by serving.
