Do u go to church services? If so how often?

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Do you attend religious services? If you attend is it a helpful experience, a pleasure or a chore?

I was raised as catholic by my parents and taken to church every sunday, as a kid I would try and get out of it as would my brothers and sisters. I found it to be a chore as a kid.

as adults we would only attend church once a year at xmas, it still is a chore.

Basically the priest's sermon goes on for a long time, (about random stuff, one year it was about death). The choir leader lady is usually on a power trip, eg gives dirty looks to people every time something different from her vision happens, picks songs that are too high for peoples to sing along to, basically isn't popular with some peoples. (the peoples in our group don't like her much).

I went to church when I was younger but all it ever did was bore me. I always felt awkward singing and the sermon was always either a story I had heard a thousand times or something so out of context that it's meaning was lost.

I started reading the Bible everyday. I find that a much better way.

In my youth church - before anybody else showed up - meant more than bible or church with people.

There have been periods where we were very regular - including one which had us driving about an hour and a half to another town.

Our last church commited suicide - not literal a la Jim Jones, just pigheadedness - out from under us and we have not been shown another to get into since.

Church bores me. I don't like hearing one person's interpretation of things. I think religion should be more democratic and people should be less ideological, because ideology's self limiting. You consciously cut yourself off from entertaining other ideas when you embrace one sect or another.

"ideology's self limiting. "

You dare say that here? The thought vans will find you even with afoil cap.

Well, that's why I keep an open mind. Rigidly sticking to the notion that the CIA or that 5th dimensional beings from the Orion Nebula are stealing your thoughts and that tin foil jams their signal is still an ideology. You might be the one who made it up, or it might be vastly unpopular, but its still ideological. If I did have a personal experience that made me think thought vans were stealing my thoughts, I'd still have an open enough mind to abandon the notion if came across something that better answered the dilemma. Maybe I'd construct a lead helmet if I found that it more effectively blocked the carrier signal or come to the conclusion that I was just imbalanced and in need of an anti-psychotic. I'm not one to hold onto the same assumptions and think I always have the answers right, simply because its easier or comforting for me not to entertain other ideas.

I go to church just about every week and volunteer in the special needs sunday school class.

The Synod of Presbytyrian congregations, are elected by the congregation based on how well he or she does his job furthering the building of a Just, and MERCYFUL Christian society, fulfilling the Great Comission to bring about a compassionate world, helping people grow.

My mom stopped making me go to church about three years ago. Prior to that, she'd make me go just about every Sunday. I never really minded going to Sunday School, but I always hated going to the sermon because I always found it to be extremely boring. I'd often make a compromise with my mom that I'd go to Sunday School if she didn't make me go to the sermon.

Anyway, I never really go to church anymore.

MY mama you did NOT try to do a deal with.

I used to be forced to go around christmas time, I only attend funerals and memorials now. I wouldn't really go to memorials if I didn't have to, there is better ways to remember a person than sitting around a lump of stone in the grass praying fervouresly

I go every Sunday morning, and attend a Bible study on Wednesday mornings.

I go for weddings and funerals for family support, but I am a committed atheist.

I was raised a Lutheran, and went because my parents took me when growing up. Early on, I saw church attendance as a chore, though by late adolescence, I found myself actually accepting Lutheran doctrine. It was after when my Dad died that I began to slack off in attendance, though when I had met my future wife, the pendulum began to swing back a little. My wife had been what could be described as a generic Protestant looking for a new fit for a church, and coming up constantly disappointed. When she took adult education classes and joined my congregation, a little more life was put back into my religious life, though we usually attended once every few months. After our daughter was born, we took it upon ourselves to expose her to religion by age three. Now, we find ourselves attending worship almost every Sunday, though personally, I enjoy the intellectual discussion of adult bible study the most.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer