Church Yet

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I love church

Yet my faith is free of church

Church informs my faith

Yet church does not.

I am free from The Church

Yet

I Am The Church.

How about you? What are your yets? Are you dechurched, unchurched, rechurched.…done with Church?

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Church Yet — 7 Comments

  1. I stepped away from church a few months ago. I went back and visted a church I left about a year and a half ago. It almost sucked me in. Only because I felf very loved, missed and wanted within the first 30 secs of step­ping foot inside. I went to an all ladies Christ­mas party and was there until almost mid­night chat­ting with a friend about church and faith and the like. She’s encour­aged me to con­tinue look­ing toward what God wants for me, even if that means not attend­ing any church. She also encour­aged me to have a con­ver­sa­tion with the Pas­tor of the church about my con­cerns and the rea­sons why I left church in the first place. That church feels like home, it feels like fam­ily. I am not blinded by that fact so much that I can’t step away if the church won’t sup­port the issues I am fight­ing. In the end it doesn’t mat­ter if I am in church or not. God is still God and as long as I con­tinue to pur­sue his will for my life my life will be fullfilling.

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  2. I’m care­fully step­ping from one church to another, and try­ing not to tip either of them over in the process. (If my kids weren’t stay­ing at the church I’ve been at for 20 years, I might make a lit­tle more noise as I leave.) I’m def­i­nitely feel­ing some strong sym­pa­thy for the but­ter­fly that’s fully grown and in the process of bat­ter­ing its way out of the cocoon.

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    • @Bee, a friend of mine says leav­ing church is like get­ting divorced.

      So why are you depart­ing a faith com­mu­nity that was yours for twenty years. Wow. that is a LONG time, prob­a­bly most of your entire adult life?? Would love to know a wee bit more of your story if you are com­fort­able telling.

      Thanks for stop­ping by, and yes, the but­ter­fly meta­mor­pho­sis, totally can relate to that. Though I feel stuck like my wings are stuck in the cocoon half the time!!

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    • @MIC, my heart aches already at the story I think you’ll tell. You and I need to meet or Skype or something !

      I’m gonna email you soon.

      Love you and your voice and way you are turn­ing tragic loss into a light­house of guid­ance for oth­ers! (hug)

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  4. Present yet cring­ing at the inane prayers and banal wor­ship music.
    Present yet feel­ing slightly guilty about reac­tion to said banal music.
    Present yet feel­ing like a mis­fit.
    Mis­fit, yet God says “Stay! Serve!”

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    • @Sandy, you say it so beau­ti­fully. Stay and serve. I’m glad you are hear­ing that. I did not hear that and so I made me to the open road where I have been com­forted to meet other way­far­ers who are fol­low­ing in the way of Jesus apart from a for­mal church. Appar­ently there is lots of room in the king­dom of God for liv­ing out our faith!

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