If you returned to church, what brought you back?
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I was never forced to go as my family isn’t religious. I did try going to a church when I was around 10-ish. I did enjoy sunday school with the other kids, a couple of my friends were there. We did arts & crafts, played video games, made cookies, etc. It wasn’t really about god. It was more just fun activities.
However actual church services weren’t really enjoyable for me, I got nothing out of them and found them to monotonous and boring. I did the Sunday school thing for a while but didn’t stick around for actual church.
I enjoyed my father's church. The youth group had a lot of kids I knew from school. Over the summer, we did a lot of field trips which were awesome and when we weren't doing that we'd work on cleaning up the church and tend to mowing the lawn. However, when I moved in with my mother, her church didn't do those things with us. It was primarily bible study and an hour of praying. Seeing as I lack a belief in a higher power, sitting there talking to myself in silence wasn't really doing it for me lol. I ended up rebelling and staying home on Sundays only to be occasionally be forced to re-attend. My mother eventually gave up making me attend after I got into a feud with the youth pastor.
It's a tough one for me because the church I go to now doesn't support LGBTQ+ but was happy to put me and my partner on team so long as we agreed to this and that.
The conference I went to in the weekend was a Rainbow Faith Gathering.
The conference I went to in the weekend was a Rainbow Faith Gathering.
We stopped attending at a particular church. Missed for two weeks. End up getting a phone call from the pastor checking in on us, wanting to make sure we're okay. I think things like that are big when it comes to returning to a church... The congregation showing that they care about you. Can't exactly replicate that walking into a different church, not initially anyway.
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I'd left a mainline denomination in my 20's as I didn't have a great experience there. So I went without for a long while. I attended some Evangelical churches in my 30's and 40's which were ok, it was a return to faith so I as m grateful to them immensely. But I found that I missed the very thing I thought I needed to leave behind in the mainline denominations. I rejoined a congregation about five years ago and haven't looked back
This is the true answer as to why people return to the Christian church. It's God who calls people to hear His Word so they may believe and have eternal life.
If someone left because they didn't like the style of the service or the people weren't what they thought they should be, then it wasn't because of God. It was an excuse.
I don't expect non-believers to return unless God changes their heart first. As shown in this thread, those who don't believe have strong negative feelings about their past experiences in regards to others who had them attend church. They allow that negativity to linger. Let it go.
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This is the original thread, a lot of these replies are off topic. If you haven't returned to church and nothing has brought you back, please don't comment. You may create a thread discussing your beliefs and opinions.
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Grew up a Methodist, drifted away in my teenage years and was basically, at best, a nominal Christian for most of my adult life.
Currently attend an SDA (Seventh-Day Adventist) church and have finally found a church home; they were some of the only people to visit me back when my health and mental stability was at its' lowest and I couldn't ever hope to repay them for it.
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If I ever left a church, I am so not coming back unless I am coming to visit once in a while. That's why I find it hard to leave a church.
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