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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 am a loner, I do not like being part of a crowd. I live and grew up in small towns and have attended churches with relatively small congregations. I love the services, Bible studies and Sunday schools, I feel Jesus’ presents in these environments. I have also tried to be involved in other church activities but have more often than not found a lot of power struggles and unchristian like politics going on in which I then excuse myself from.
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The positive in local church attendance that I was among those with like minds wanted to please God and use the gifts to edify the body of Christ.
The negative side of church attendance that those that you meet and bonded with as a believer leave the church..
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I belonged to a big church and felt that I receive the message and learn from each attendance, but I didn’t feel that I was part of the church. I was just attending. I joined a smaller group and have had a better experience of being able to connect with others in the church, help in coordinating for bible study lessons and just knowing that I can always go to anyone in church and they will be willing to help.
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I am a Pastor’s kid, so I grew up in Church, attending every service there was. The positive is that I had a support system, even when I fell away and was ‘doing my own thing’, the saints of the Church prayed and encouraged me.
I never experienced any negatives of church attendance.
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We have had a very difficult time finding a church in our small town that’s biblically bases as well as offering youth groups and kids church. The church we attend currently is small with very sound biblical theology.