Don't Miss:
- 3 hours of church.
- guilt.
- having to worry about what to wear.
- Losing one day a week. Couldn't do anything (it seems) on Sunday
Do Miss:
- Having a reason to visit with women (visiting teaching)
- Being the reason for a visit (visiting teaching)
- Mostly everyone knowing my face AND name.
- Primary Music
- neighbourhood "friends"
4 comments:
We get "3 hour church" regularly. And when you were on the worship team, 5 hour church. It's not really the quantity of time -- even though having shorter-than-3-hour meetings is also nice to have in the weekly church-going routine. What I love is the variety, choice and consensual culture around how you spend that time.
I agree with you on missing the kids having "primary" music as part of their regular church experience. So are you gonna help Alpine change that?
Love ya!
Bry
Yes, but when we have longer church, it is so much more engaging to me and I'm not counting down the minutes.
I'm with you on not missing the guilt. It's a nice feeling, huh? It takes a little while to find your new community. We just recently started going to a Unitarian Universalist church and really like it - very tolerant, interesting meetings, extremely friendly people, etc. And only an hour long! :)
Although I haven't left the church, the church has largely left me.
The guilt is (mostly) gone. I feel so free, knowing I don't *have* to do what someone "in authority" says I have to do, or be damned.
I realized that, the more I learned about life, the universe, and, well, everything, the less sense the church made. Having to sit still and shut up because science disagreed with some old church guy with too much authority and too little curiosity, or because my position disagreed with the dominant political-philosophy-of-men-mixed-with-scripture; having to do all that just took a toll on me, week after week.
"Too Little Curiosity" almost sums up the attitude of too many of the higher church leadership. They aren't curious about their own religion, much less the world around them. They only want to know what they need for their job.
Sometimes I wonder, if Bruce McConkie had become President of the US, would it have been much different than Dubya's time? In detail, I think, but not kind.
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