How Many Here Attend Church?

[Master Vigil]

"A building isn't even necessary."

Where then would people gather together to worship in the freezing cold? Surely not outside, they need a building. Whether it is a house, or a church, it is still a building, and a necessity. It is true the church is not the building but the congregation, but still. People need to stay warm and keep out of the elements when they get together.

 

[huajiro]

We all have homes and jackets

 

[Doc]

By the way Doc, could you explain Franciscanism? Does it have anything to do with St. Francis? Back when I was Catholic, St. Francis was my Patron Saint.

Franciscanism is not actually a separate a religion. The Franciscan Community is Catholic, but is like an individual sect within the Church accepted by Rome. Francis is my patron saint and I have fallen in love with his teachings over the past year. I guess you could call me a simpleton like Francis. No desires for wealth or fortune. Only spiritual enlightenment and to love others. I go to a Franciscan Catholic School. Francis helped rebuild the church and reform it with a new sect (Franciscans) The Church was in dire need of help, and Francis was like light in the darkness!

 

[Quoth The Raven]

I think I've set foot in a church 3 times in the last 10 years (once to be polite to the people I was staying with - I lasted until the first hymn before I walked out; once for a christening; once for a funeral). They make me very uncomfortable.

What u got against churches? Gee, you didn't even go to Sunday School at St Andrews every week for 5 years of your life or whatever.

I love churches...they're better when they're empty though I think.

 

[Bastet]

What u got against churches? Gee, you didn't even go to Sunday School at St Andrews every week for 5 years of your life or whatever.

I love churches...they're better when they're empty though I think.

I remember going to Sunday school a little here, before we moved. Guess it's not so much the churches that make me uncomfortable, it's the people in 'em.

 

[Quoth The Raven]

I remember going to Sunday school a little here, before we moved. Guess it's not so much the churches that make me uncomfortable, it's the people in 'em.

You only went a couple of times, because I really wanted to go. But it wasn't like St Andrews Sunday School, which is why we only went a couple of times. I got over it.

 

[Dadball]

We attend a contemporary worship on Sunday. My wife and I meet in a small group on Sun. and Wed. We have both taught SS, we took this year off.

 

[The Voice of Reason]

I religiously attend Saint Mattress every Sunday morning. Never miss - except when I was younger and played quite a bit of golf.

TVOR

 

[robtex]

what is up with agnostic and athiest church attendance? you guys are killing me...i am dying over here in texas reading this...!!! You theists so need to follow their attendance examples!!

 

[Runt]

I attend church. I'm a Unitarian Universalist and I attend the Church in my city. You may be surprised (seeing as I'm atheist), but I'm actually pretty involved in church life: choir, Sacred Earth Circle (the pagan group at my church), Covenant Groups (I've been in two... one of which I led, which was fun), and I'm joining Worship Committee.

I also frequently do sabbats with my Wiccan family and friends, which is very fulfilling for me in a different kind of way than my normal church services are even though the celebrations are not as... churchlike... as the UU ones.

 

[Sunstone]

Church??? What's a church?

 

[Quoth The Raven]

I religiously attend Saint Mattress every Sunday morning. Never miss - except when I was younger and played quite a bit of golf.

TVOR

So you'd prostrate yourself before the Lord during the course of this worship,then?:jiggy:

 

[The Voice of Reason]

So you'd prostrate yourself before the Lord during the course of this worship,then?:jiggy:

LMAO - yea, I guess you could say that. Occasionally, the spirit moves through me so strongly that I curl up in the fetal position. I know that the services are over when I get alarmed!

Thanks,
TVOR

 

[Master Vigil]

"We all have homes and jackets"

Come now meogi, a home is a building. And even jackets cannot keep you comfortable in below freezing temperatures. At least not long enough for some churches services.

 

[huajiro]

"We all have homes and jackets"

Come now meogi, a home is a building. And even jackets cannot keep you comfortable in below freezing temperatures. At least not long enough for some churches services.

It's Huajiro by the way. Anyway, why can't I have Church services at my home when it is cold out, and outside when it is not? I don't know of any law that prohibits this.

 

[Master Vigil]

Sorry about the name mixup, please forgive me????

I didn't say you couldn't have it in your house. But is that not still a building?

 

[huajiro]

Sorry about the name mixup, please forgive me????

I didn't say you couldn't have it in your house. But is that not still a building?

My point of avoiding the Church is avoiding any added expense for your religious practice. If you note what I said in the first post, I think that this creates problems as one person will handle the payment of the building and therefore take money from others....why not avoid this and concentrate on the religion?

Don't worry about the name mixup, I just didn't want it to seem as though I was answering for someone else

 

[Master Vigil]

So let me get this straight, you don't have a problem with the building, just a building that is an added expense? I understand. It may be hard for a huge catholic congregation to fit in a house. It may be possible, but not universal. I understand what you are saying, and I too feel the expense should not override the religion. If the minister is more worried about the expense of the building than the people of the congregation, and the religion he is teaching, than that I would say, is no longer a church. But just any other business.

 

[huajiro]

So let me get this straight, you don't have a problem with the building, just a building that is an added expense? I understand. It may be hard for a huge catholic congregation to fit in a house. It may be possible, but not universal. I understand what you are saying, and I too feel the expense should not override the religion. If the minister is more worried about the expense of the building than the people of the congregation, and the religion he is teaching, than that I would say, is no longer a church. But just any other business.

Whenever money gets in the middle of things it ruins them

 

[Master Vigil]

Yes, if money is first everything is ruined. This I definitely agree upon. But it is not the building's fault, it is the people's fault. Do not hate churches because they are buildings, hate churches because of the stupid people that fit inside the building.