Comments on: The church disappoints again http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/ Skipping along through life in half-crazed madness. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:37:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: Heather http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-44 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:11:08 +0000 http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-44 I know exactly how you feel. After being out of the church scene for nearly 8 years, I have tried going back only to find myself wanting to run screaming from the building. I just want to get away from people talking churchspeak instead of like real people and being bright and shiny and telling you to give them more money when I would rather give it to people who REALLY need it, etc etc etc. I'm still looking for more real Christians to hang out with - maybe these online communities are the answer for me too. I'm so glad I found this blog - it gives me hope I'm not the only one who feels this way. Sigh. I know exactly how you feel. After being out of the church scene for nearly 8 years, I have tried going back only to find myself wanting to run screaming from the building. I just want to get away from people talking churchspeak instead of like real people and being bright and shiny and telling you to give them more money when I would rather give it to people who REALLY need it, etc etc etc. I’m still looking for more real Christians to hang out with - maybe these online communities are the answer for me too. I’m so glad I found this blog - it gives me hope I’m not the only one who feels this way. Sigh.

]]> by: Sue http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-43 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:00:05 +0000 http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-43 NO! DON'T SUCK IT UP! Don't do it! LOL :) Hi Lou. Thanks for dropping over to my blog :) You know, I admire you for going to that church building, I really do. Every now and then I get desperate myself, and think, "Oh, come on. Maybe it won't be so bad. I'll just try and ride all the other crap for the community." But sheesh, I dunno - I just can't do it. I just can't physically do it. I'm in the same spot as you in a lot of ways. Hanging for community. But just hanging on to the thought that Papa is going to knit me in when the time is right, whatever that may look. Even though his timing is so interminably slow :D NO! DON’T SUCK IT UP! Don’t do it!

LOL :)

Hi Lou. Thanks for dropping over to my blog :) You know, I admire you for going to that church building, I really do. Every now and then I get desperate myself, and think, “Oh, come on. Maybe it won’t be so bad. I’ll just try and ride all the other crap for the community.”

But sheesh, I dunno - I just can’t do it. I just can’t physically do it. I’m in the same spot as you in a lot of ways. Hanging for community. But just hanging on to the thought that Papa is going to knit me in when the time is right, whatever that may look. Even though his timing is so interminably slow :D

]]> by: Kel http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-42 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:54:03 +0000 http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-42 i hear what you're saying, none of us would choose to be "not normal" in the sense of being revolutionary and stepping outside the usual flow, none of us like to be criticised or ostracised by "The group" B is like you, social approval is more important to him than for me, it is to me to an extent, but I guess I have more of an independent streak in me, but it's still hard to step out and go against the flow regardless of temperament, - i read a great poem on the weekend which speaks of this kind of journey, and have just posted about it, my reflections on it, regarding blog buddies, includes yourself and Matt just had a thought, will email you something... i hear what you’re saying, none of us would choose to be “not normal” in the sense of being revolutionary and stepping outside the usual flow, none of us like to be criticised or ostracised by “The group”

B is like you, social approval is more important to him than for me, it is to me to an extent, but I guess I have more of an independent streak in me, but it’s still hard to step out and go against the flow regardless of temperament,

- i read a great
poem on the weekend which speaks of this kind of journey, and have just posted about it, my reflections on it, regarding blog buddies, includes yourself and Matt

just had a thought, will email you something…

]]> by: lou http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-41 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:03:50 +0000 http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-41 trouble is I am not the going against the flow sort of person. In the quiet of this morning God spoke to me again of being a revolutionary and if you look at natural revolutionaries they were often quite alone and out of the norm- So my question is why choose me to do that I am a social being who needs people to like me to keep me pyscologically afloat. I didnt get an answer to that. But what you say Kel is just further confirms what is in my heart. That Matt and I must choose the other path, I guess why scripture calls it "the narrow way". Sometimes I just wish the road wasnt so narrow. trouble is I am not the going against the flow sort of person. In the quiet of this morning God spoke to me again of being a revolutionary and if you look at natural revolutionaries they were often quite alone and out of the norm- So my question is why choose me to do that I am a social being who needs people to like me to keep me pyscologically afloat. I didnt get an answer to that. But what you say Kel is just further confirms what is in my heart. That Matt and I must choose the other path, I guess why scripture calls it “the narrow way”. Sometimes I just wish the road wasnt so narrow.

]]> by: kel http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-40 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:48:17 +0000 http://namaily.com/posts/2008/08/24/the-church-disappoints-again/#comment-40 Dearest Lou I hear your heart's cry, it resonates strongly with mine. It's not an easy path to walk, or journey to seek, because it goes against the flow. I have refused to suck it up, and instead chose to spit it out. Still chewing on the alternatives, one of which is "community" with like-minded friends all over the world via blogs. Holding you in my thoughts and prayers. Dearest Lou
I hear your heart’s cry, it resonates strongly with mine. It’s not an easy path to walk, or journey to seek, because it goes against the flow. I have refused to suck it up, and instead chose to spit it out. Still chewing on the alternatives, one of which is “community” with like-minded friends all over the world via blogs.
Holding you in my thoughts and prayers.

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