I can not find a Church?

I was hoping to get some advice.

I am from the England, where the percentage of Christians is about 2 percent. There are very few churches.

Well all the ones I have visited in my area have been unwelcoming and cold towards me. You know I went to a social event which was a none Christian one about a year ago and I said to my friend, people here are really unfriendly and unwelcoming, it was a Non Christian social club and there was no way I was going to go back. You see the same thing has happened in a Church, so why would I go back to a Church that was also the same?? Why would I want to go somewhere that everyone ignores me or looks down on me??? I would walk away from Church feeling totally depressed, feeling so small, so unloved, spiritually my pasison for God would be drained, I didnt hear anything from the Bible that I didnt already know, there was no fellowship as no one talked to me and when tried to talk to people they would just be really uninterested. I dont know why, well I think I do, its because I was on my own as I noticed that other people who were new who were couples people were talking to them and even some girls who were on their own they were talking to them. I could see a hierarchy in the churches, and some of them a couple of people spoke to me but they were the people who were at the lower end of the hyrarchy who just put up with being looked down on and not many people talking to them.
At the moment I am really struggiling to goto church as why would I go when I walk away I feel so depressed, so unloved, so unwelcome, treated like I am invisable, theres no teaching that I didnt already know, theres no fellowship??? It normally takes me a few days to start to feel in a better mood again.

I thought church was suppose to be about

• Fellowship
• Teaching
• being part of a loving family

Well none of that I have found at the churches here. I am just praying about what to do at the moment. I have also been amazed at how Christians and churches treat me and comdem me for not being part of a local church at the moment. I lived in the US for a couple of years and have to say I never had that problem there and was amazed by the hospitaility and the love in the churches there, unlike in England.

I just dont know what to do...

I agree that sounds bad. I talked to a man from Germany this Sabbath - who has just started attending church here in Georgia. He said that his neighbors are inviting him to their church - and that he is not used to this in Germany because in Europe and especially in Germany they do not talk about religion when socializing with friends and neighbors.

Try other churches. Try a Sabbath keeping Church in your area.

in Christ,

Bob

Hi Matthew ,

Do you maybe have a friend or a relative that belongs to a good church ? That does seem odd about the churches. They should be all the things that you listed. Don't lose heart man.

Maybe watch some good online sermons to hold you over in the mean time. Here is a good link to a church in Texas USA. Great pastor , great messages. I watch them a lot. God Bless

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Hi Matthew

Don't let a bad experience put you off!

Keeping trying. I went to a few churches for a visit and the experience was discouraging. But then after about 12 attempts I found a better one, a Baptist Church I am now regularly attending.

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Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says (James 1:22)

Matthew, like everyone else here who's said to not give up yet, I hope you keep looking. Churches are made up of people...and that's their weakness, if you see what I mean. We're supposed to behave differently from ordinary people, but all the frailties and quirks of ordinary men and women get taken by them into the churches they join.

Congregations vary a lot, regardless of denomination. So keep looking. Many people have found the perfect one for them just when they'd concluded that they'd examined the prospects so well in their town that there couldn't possibly be one that had been overlooked.

Humble yourself and you will not think like this. Remember many people are carrying burdens into the church is to up building each member then perhaps you can be the one to show the way my friend. You seem to have a loving heart. Remember Jesus is your church not a building so start your own ministry and then you cna teahc others to love each other

Bless you

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