I Dont Go to Church

I used to go.I stopped going when I was going through my divorce.Pastor told me it wasn't biblically correct for me to divorce.I was so turned off.It turns out we rectified things and I never got a divorce but still didn't go back.I am a believer in Jesus dying for us but can't make myself go back to church.

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will999 · 70-79, M

Daisy48 Hello. i feel much the sane way. I became a Christian while living a life without purpose at the age of 20. I was house- sharing with a young Christian man and his girlfriend's mother opened up the new testament to me. She opened it at the book of ACTS ch:2, Paul's Damascus road conversion experience and told me that before the resurrected Jesus returned to his Heavenly Father He promised the disciples he would send them another comforter 'just like me', the Holy Spirit. She asked me if I had sinned and I answered 'I think I must have', at which she offered to pray for my salvation right there and then in our kitchen. She stood behind me with her hands on my shounders and prayed out loud using a spiritual gift, a language she had not learned. I was overwhelmed and reduced to tears by the awareness of God's love and forgiveness and filled with a sense of well- being which has not left me to this day. Even though I am far from being prefect I know I am perfectly forgiven in God's sight. I tried to join a local Uniting Church recently, Uniting = Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational together under the basis of union forming a new denomination in Australia where I live. I want to be involved in a fellowship with other Christians but I don't think I can remain in this one. It is friendly and welcoming on the surface but underneath it is very narrow minded. I guess I have to keep looking.

Butterflykisses24 · 51-55, F

@will999 good luck in your search and glad you got saved.

will999 · 70-79, M

@Butterflykisses24 As it turns out I am divorced as well. II Corinthians 6:14 (KJV) says, “Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers. . . ” It doesn't say relationships, it doesn't say marriage but its implication is that of any relationship with another person. My choice of marriage partner was not the wisest choice of my life. When she had a dishonest affair with another man from our church home group I sensed something was up but she denied it avidly. When she left abruptly and started another family with him I could see no reasonable alternative but a fair separation. I paid her half what I got for our home to be fair to her, and said goodbye to be fair to me. Perhaps I could have made a more agreeable decision with a bit of cooperation. It is 35 years now since we parted. My biggest regret is that it can be rough on the kids.

Butterflykisses24 · 51-55, F

@will999 yes rough on the kids.

SagePoet

I don't go to church for a variety of reasons. God is the judge of all things. At some point it's all gonna come out on judgement day

Happytohelp77 · 46-50, M

Welcome to the truth, nice to have you with us.

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Butterflykisses24 · 51-55, F

@Mrpauldavies I don't believe so,no.

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