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Yes, I think the remarks of some of the older members here disillusion younger believers...including some of the more paranoid ones who have had negative experiences.
I don't think age should be an issue either, and I don't really think it is. Some of these things are just more individual insecurities than anything else. There's a wide variety of ages at the church I'm attending.
I didn't read all the way to the end either Sparkman but have heard and read you enough that I'm not worried you may have tagged anything unbiblical on the end.
I agree too with what you have said and believe that it is so important to be in a church for the reasons you posted especially in the beginning of your post and the list of reasons to be in a church fellowship.
It seems obvious that many of us here on CC have had some bad experiences with church organizations. And the older we get the more set in our ways we have become. There are circumstances where some can't go to church and they are varied reasons. Again, the older we get and the more used to living without other people, the less attractive and desirable it is to be involved with them., since we know by living on planet earth, people are flawed and difficult to even want to be around....let alone to be under their authority?! YIKES no way we say.
I'd like to add to your post that people should not get so old and set in their ways that they don't need others and then also preach to younger believers that same dismay they feel of other people. We do need others and although it can be painful and annoying, God wants us to join together and learn how to get along. Even submitting to a group and learning not to always have our opinions put out there even when we are just bursting at the seams to say something.
There's a lot we can learn from others even if it is to not answer a fool according to his folly. We learn patience and how to love the annoying. Sparkman, your post is very good and the spirit behind it is also one I can get behind. God made us to be strong together. Yes., we can survive alone if we must but it is far better to be part of the body and learn how God wants us to function together.
Start going to church right away when you get saved. Join a church that preaches the Bible. Don't listen to old dismayed believers who have not gotten back on the saddle and weathered the storms of learning how to get along with others. God has great and wonderful reasons why we should be in a church body in the physical aspects with other people. Getting up and taking ourselves and our families to be with other believers in church is one of the Blessings God has for us.
I don't think age should be an issue either, and I don't really think it is. Some of these things are just more individual insecurities than anything else. There's a wide variety of ages at the church I'm attending.
I didn't read all the way to the end either Sparkman but have heard and read you enough that I'm not worried you may have tagged anything unbiblical on the end.
I agree too with what you have said and believe that it is so important to be in a church for the reasons you posted especially in the beginning of your post and the list of reasons to be in a church fellowship. It seems obvious that many of us here on CC have had some bad experiences with church organizations. And the older we get the more set in our ways we have become. There are circumstances where some can't go to church and they are varied reasons. Again, the older we get and the more used to living without other people, the less attractive and desirable it is to be involved with them., since we know by living on planet earth, people are flawed and difficult to even want to be around....let alone to be under their authority?! YIKES no way we say.
I'd like to add to your post that people should not get so old and set in their ways that they don't need others and then also preach to younger believers that same dismay they feel of other people. We do need others and although it can be painful and annoying, God wants us to join together and learn how to get along. Even submitting to a group and learning not to always have our opinions put out there even when we are just bursting at the seams to say something.
There's a lot we can learn from others even if it is to not answer a fool according to his folly. We learn patience and how to love the annoying. Sparkman, your post is very good and the spirit behind it is also one I can get behind. God made us to be strong together. Yes., we can survive alone if we must but it is far better to be part of the body and learn how God wants us to function together.
Start going to church right away when you get saved. Join a church that preaches the Bible. Don't listen to old dismayed believers who have not gotten back on the saddle and weathered the storms of learning how to get along with others. God has great and wonderful reasons why we should be in a church body in the physical aspects with other people. Getting up and taking ourselves and our families to be with other believers in church is one of the Blessings God has for us.
