interestingly, i've been wrestling with the fact that not even going to church on Sundays is edifying for me. perhaps it is the incongruence between what I see and perceive at church and what is going on around us.
In the memoir My Bright Abyss, Christian Wiman makes the statement that sometimes God calls us to periods of unbelief so that new faith can emerge. I think this is true. There's nothing wrong with finding health by not attending church. I didn't open a Bible for three years after some church trauma. I couldn't. It caused too much pain. I needed to heal to find out if the Bible was even for me anymore.
And you're right; there is a gulf of incongruence between what happens at church and what is going on in the world around us. The church (for the most part) doesn't get it at all. Maybe that's why the Spirit leads some of her children away from it.
interestingly, i've been wrestling with the fact that not even going to church on Sundays is edifying for me. perhaps it is the incongruence between what I see and perceive at church and what is going on around us.
In the memoir My Bright Abyss, Christian Wiman makes the statement that sometimes God calls us to periods of unbelief so that new faith can emerge. I think this is true. There's nothing wrong with finding health by not attending church. I didn't open a Bible for three years after some church trauma. I couldn't. It caused too much pain. I needed to heal to find out if the Bible was even for me anymore.
And you're right; there is a gulf of incongruence between what happens at church and what is going on in the world around us. The church (for the most part) doesn't get it at all. Maybe that's why the Spirit leads some of her children away from it.
I appreciate your response. Right now I don't know if it's my particular church, or church in general. Definitely some discernment in gear.