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Have you ever kept attending a church while feeling you weren't part of the clique?

bèlla

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Dude - you need to find a better congregation. The entire group is supposed to be ASSEMBLED, not just collected together once or twice a week. Everyone needs to be a part of other congregants' lives.

Dave,

The Holy Spirit unpacked this earlier today in a dream. Stumbling on your post was the cherry on top. Yes to all of that. Well said! :)

Yours in His Service,

~Bella
 
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I've been in the same type of congregation. I feel ignored and it feels tough just to keep going
I have been and it is very hard to keep going. I found myself bouncing around from church to church and when I thought I had it I was asked to leave because I wasn't on their rolls.

I was with a wonderful church once and we had a great fellowship there and I was the new one on the block and was very welcomed and able to join in and I belonged there. Unfortunately, after 4 years travesty hit and the Bishop closed our small church although we were growing so much, but not with the right hands we were a poorer church, not with a lot of wealth.
 
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and when I thought I had it I was asked to leave because I wasn't on their rolls.

:openmouth: Oh, my. I have never heard of such a thing! I think I would want to leave any church that asked people to leave.
 
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No. If you never feel you "belong" anywhere, why would you keep going?
Coffee, pastry, donuts, friendly people, but who happen to be liberal Democrats who are determined to infiltrate traditional churches, eventually gain the majority, and takeover everything. So, certain benefits, but not like-mindedness in spirit, truth, Biblical interpretation, or politics. With so many preachers having stream-on-demand sermons recorded, adequate teaching is available without leaving the house, but there's no fellowship in that. The alternative in another church is no free breakfast, less friendly people, but like-mindedness in truth and politics, even if you show up and leave having never spoken to anyone. How to choose?
 
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No. If you never feel you "belong" anywhere, why would you keep going?
Hope against hope daily. Finding one true brother or sister at an assembly is a joy of fellowship the others there do not even realize. Eventually God will lead His Own together as He Determines.
 
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