Have u stopped going to church...if so then why ? 🤔 ✨ 🕊️ ✨

No one gets to heaven on an hour and a half a week. It's the rest of the week that matters.

I pray on my own terms and in my own time. Have nothing against church. I really enjoyed the last church I went to but it’s and hour and a half away.

I've never been to church. I'm sure the place would catch fire if I walked in

I grew up in a Baptist church. I am from the south, and I went every Sunday for the first 18 years of my life. Deep down, I always knew the religion didn't resonate with me. No religion does. I know that it is manmade. It is an interpretation of someone's relationship with the Divine creator.

I am agnostic. I believe that there is something greater than us. But I believe I am in control of my relationship with the creator. I don't have to seek religious doctrines created by man to have that relationship with Source (my name for what most call God).

I don't shit on people who do believe in Christ or any other organized religion. I still listen to gospel music, and I even resort to passages from various religious texts when I feel down. I see the beauty in it. And I see the good it does for people. It creates a sense of community. I even go to church with my Christian friends from time to time. It feels good for the soul to hear a good sermon/message. But my relationship with the source or creator is personal. I owe no one an explanation of how I speak with it. Or what makes me feel close to it. But I will share when asked. It feels good to get to know Source without feeling confined to a religious text.

I won't go to hell or to those forsaken places that people think he has waiting for me. He (and I am not giving it a gender, but it's easier to refer to it as a pronoun in some instances. I am choosing to use He), He knows my heart. He knows that I am good and that I choose to do good each and every day. He knows that I value my relationship with him. I also value my relationship with the other good spirits in my life. My ancestors. I thank them each day for guidance. So, this is why I no longer attend church regularly. I have found what feels good to me spiritually.

I had deliberately stopped being regular going inside any religious centre.

God Is Within but I do miss doing certain stuff that was done while inside a religious place of worship.

Ask your driver.

I used to go when I was a child Then in my young adulthood, I got it in my head to try a UU church but only went once. Then during the pandemic, I tried again at a non-denominational church, and went a few times online. I actually liked this service. I think about going in person sometimes, but prayer is such a private and individual thing for me. I think I'd only go to church for the social/communal aspect, or maybe to join the choir.

I still.

I never felt it... as a young child my parents sent me (they didn't go) to a small Methodist church... didn't get the whole God and Jesus thing, just couldn't wrap my head around it. I quit going (parents gave up trying to send me) and all through my childhood and teen years I would go on occasion with a friend to their church (various religions). Still couldn't get my head around the concept of all these different religions and gods.

Then I went all around the world for the next 20 years of my life and was exposed to various beliefs, religions, etc. Still nothing, still never found one I could completely wrap my head around.

I was forced to as a child, and to do CCD and make communion/confirmation. I stopped going after on my own.

I don’t follow any specific religion.

I would like to go back, but haven't been since the pandemic. I got used to watching it on tv. I will go eventually.

I no longer believe in the gospel and principles of the church i grew up in. Although i did see a youtube clip of the last Conference meeting where someone reminded everyone that we are still the church of jesus christ and the ladder day saints and not the church of Moroni or Joseph Smith.

Use to be SDA. Now I just live but still believe the sabbath as a day of REST. And RELAXATION. My weekly vacation to enjoy this earth as naturally as possible enjoying Mother Nature as much as I can.

But religion is definitely a BOX. It’s good to fellowship and have that support or maybe hear praise and worship sing and glorify God. But I don’t get into the religion it’s a title or limitation to The All I Am.

I still go to church to worship. I can never remember not going to church. Church (love) is indeed in your heart and through the studying of God's word but it's just something special to me sitting in a congregation and being fed God's word.

I still go

I still believe. More of a deist now though. I really lost respect for church leadership. Stop going to church about 10 years ago.

Never started

I stopped going to church in my late teens. I grew up christian so was at church from a young age. I stopped going because i fell away from it. Started my own life. I still believe in god today though just dont attend church.

I grew up a devout Catholic. In high school I went to mass 6 days a week and every Sunday of course.

Over the years I have transitioned to being a non-believer in God.

I haven't been inside a house of worship for a decade. And before that was even longer. What a waste of time.

I haven't been in a long time. Not against going again but my heart isn't in it.

I worship every week at a local church. I love Jesus.

stopped about 10 years ago

I stopped going because I stopped believing.

Never believed in someone eles take on how things are perceived, I have my own religion made up be me and I run my life on it.