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05-08-2016, 09:21 PM
Skeeter, just gave ya a thumbs-up for this post. We even walked away from organized worship at the same age, 12! This was the age that my parents stopped making me attend regular service so I stopped completely.
Jesus is a sovereign, individual and direct savior. He is also of course non-denominational. He does not need churches. Now, I do know a couple of folks that have no believers in their immediate orbit. One that comes to mind chooses to attend church. Otherwise, like you, "been there, done that" and personally have grown beyond its use, need or desire.
I also saw how church members seemed to mesh their identities. They lost a bit of themselves to the group, talking and acting the same like we did in the seventies with "sex,drugs and rock'n roll." I went it alone and sincerely sought my creator and then decades later discovered true worship----which IMO is the practice of silent stillness which is the antithesis of organized religion.
Jesus is a sovereign, individual and direct savior. He is also of course non-denominational. He does not need churches. Now, I do know a couple of folks that have no believers in their immediate orbit. One that comes to mind chooses to attend church. Otherwise, like you, "been there, done that" and personally have grown beyond its use, need or desire.
I also saw how church members seemed to mesh their identities. They lost a bit of themselves to the group, talking and acting the same like we did in the seventies with "sex,drugs and rock'n roll." I went it alone and sincerely sought my creator and then decades later discovered true worship----which IMO is the practice of silent stillness which is the antithesis of organized religion.