Do you go to church?

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I don't go to church. Haven't gone since I was 12.

I always found group activities hard in Sunday school so I followed the group. I loved it when we do activities like making things. I found the priest boring when he do the preaching but when we sang, I liked it. They passed out clipboards with crayons and a coloring sheet on it to kids under ten to keep them busy.

I go to church and have been going all my life.

My family doesn't fit in because the other
congregators find my family as "anti-social" or "strange."
There are cliques at my church. Sad, isn't it?

After Mass, there is a fun ministry called Coffee and Donuts.
Families sit with other families. Seniors sit with other seniors.
Little kids play with other little kids and the music ensemble sits with each other.
Sad, isn't it?

Families with more leverage reject other families
who are different from them.
Unfortunately, my family is one of the "rejects" by reason and force.

I usually sit in the same pew every Sunday.

I went to church as a child up until I was around 8, but since then only for weddings, funerals, etc. I am not an atheist and have great respect other's beliefs and how they choose to practice their religion, but I long ago concluded organized religion is not for me.

I have been going to church my whole life.

I haven't been in about 11 years. I went mostly because my parents made me.

Dragging my kids to church each Sunday is my New Year's resolution.

I have converted to two different religions in my life but now am just going to the nearest church across the street.

I have lots of problems socializing.... the nice thing about church is that you're NOT supposed to talk!

I go to church when I am with my grandparents but that's it. And I sometimes go to youth group. I'm not a fan of church though, for one I'm Agnostic, two, people always come up and try to hug me and shake my hand and three, sitting there listening to someone preach about something I don't technically believe in for an hour feels like a little bit of a waste. So I sit there and see how long I can hold my breath, or if I'm in a more productive mood, think about my own religion; See it to believe it...

Anyway, I rarely go and it's only to make my grandparents happy.

Yes, but after church everyone talks. I try to get out there as soon as it is over when I'm alone, but when I'm with my mother I have to stick around not talking to anyone. I was an independent, bible believing, Baptist. The Baptist are all black and white. Their are no gray areas with them.
I got tried of all that rigidness. So, now I'm looking for a laid back church that's not a cult.

I never ever met a girl in any church that I've been too. But I seen some hotties. However, if I do go back to church again it certainly won't be a stone hard Baptist church.

I hate when the minister have everyone to shake hands. I don't like it when they want all visitors too stand up. It is too embarrassing. I want to sink in my seat. I can only stay for the church for a hour after that I become uncomfortable.

Yes, I go. I don't socialize. I try to be civil. But I go there because I believe it's right and the church is true. They're friendly, I just have been avoiding social contact mostly. Do what is right, let the consequence follow, to quote a hymn. Even if the consequence is having to dodge bubbly people.

Community is the whole point of going to church. Fellowship is where it all begins.

You understand that, don't you?

I stopped going to church when I was... end of 2nd or beginning of 3rd grade. I thought it was rather useless to go to my mind, I didn't comprehend that going to church meant you were not only supposed to be connected to God (I concluded that it can't possibly matter where you are to God from what they told us in religion classes and church) but that you were supposed to connect with the people there. Which, frankly, I have no reason nor sense for up to this day. I'm also not baptised, so there is no other reason to go to church either.

I am an ordained minister and I don't go as often as I should. I have a hard time when the church preaches that we should love one another yet support the wars and treat gay people like animals.

I plan on starting my own church either this spring or summer.

Did your ordination certificate come in the mail or did you print it out at home?

It came in the mail. Granted, I did not go to divinity school, but I think that everybody has to be treated with respect regardless of belief, or any other way society likes to separate and stereotype people.

Agreed.

Why do want to start your own church?