How satisfied are you with your church?

[ColleenLovesMischief]

How satisfied is everyone with their churches? Are you happy there, or kinda stuck there?

[RebekahDavid]

I am wonderfully blessed with my "church" and church brothers and sisters in Christ. Not perfect but really as close as you can get i think this side of heaven. love them all. love worshiping the Lord with them. love growing in the knowledge of Him and in His grace with them, love their encouragement and correction, love their mission vision, their love of God and His Word and the fellowship is so amazing. woot woot we need more sundays so i can go more often lol (i work 2nd shift so i miss the weeknight studied etc usually)

love your sister in Christ,

Rebekah David

[TheoMike]

We're in a great church; we have a wonderful congregation and a pastor who is a student and expositor of the Word. Why in the world would anybody stay in a church they are unhappy with? It's not like there is a shortage of churches in America!

[LossForWords]

Some people stay because it's tradition. Your great grandfather helped build the church, your grandfather helped buy the organ, your father was on the board, so it's your turn to step up to the proverbial plate.

I think that's why we have so much dis-satisfication (lol! is that even a word?) in the church. Many churches are still open and running because of tradition, not because the Spirit is alive and well within...but because it's just the way it's always been.

It happens alot in small towns. If you leave your "home church," you are looked down upon...and if you try to enter into a "new church" you are snubbed because your family doesn't go to that church...you don't belong.

I am looking at a new start church in our area now. It just opened in an old movie theater on main street. I have a feeling it's made up of alot of people who are frustrated with the lack of spiritual growth in their own church, but can't find a church home because of the churches who are desperately hanging onto tradition.

People who have alot of choices when it comes to which church they are going to attend are blessed, in my opinion.

[Matthitjah]

Grace to you,

My vote is to not look for satisfaction with your Church, but to Serve with distinction where God has planted you.

Peace,

Dave

[EricH]

A good follow up question would be to discern why people are dissatisified.

[ColleenLovesMischief]

I am one of the few who lives in a small enough area in the USA to be faced with lack of choice. There are no other bible believeing churches in a decent area with gas at $3 a gallon. I would have to drive over 30 miles one way, and I just cannot afford that. I'm dissatisfied because of the way my church is run. Some of the chatters have heard me talk about it before. The pastor overrides everything the board decides. Doesn't matter what the congragation says if he isn't in the mood for what they are talking about it is totally dismissed. I don't see the point in having that board. Also there is much preferrential treatment. Sometimes I don't know what to do with it. I feel like an outcast because I am not of the same social status as everyone else...and most seem so fake to me.

[Deathstar 80]

I know that I'm blessed to even have a church to go to, but I voted that my church was decent. I voted this way because sometimes I feel uncomfortable with the people who go there. They don't do anything wrong, but they seem like they're looking bad at me, like I did something wrong. I could just be paranoid, though. In that case, my church is great.

[Vickilynn]

Shalom,

We lived in a place for 5 years that had NO real church less than about an hour's drive over sqiggly mountain roads. There was no way we could attend a church like that as our attendance would be sporadic.

So, we went to the little community church down the road. My husband and children refused to go because it was so bad, so dead and the people there were out drinking the night before and sitting piously in their family pews on Sunday mornings.

We got a new pastor who tried to preach the Word and welcome the Holy Spirit, but was stopped by the elders because they didn't like "new" things. The pastor was told to preach and lead songs like they had been done before.

I attended to serve and I found places to do that, but the service was awful.

Anyway, I ended up with cancer and had to leave the state and the Pastor gave up and moved on.

NOW, we are attending a church that is AWESOME!!

The Word is preached without apology. The Gospel is presented each and every service and almost every service there are people BORN AGAIN!

Last night we had a baptismal service for those saved in the last month and there were 30 people baptized! (We baptize once a month because we have so many!)

The pastors are G-dly men that walk their talk and have a heart to serve.

I can't say enough about our church and I seek to serve through it.

[Gerioke]

My church was great when it was small. Then they spent 1.2 million on a new sanctuary and now there is a real show biz mentality there. It's frustrating because there are some serious Christians there but the look at me thing seems to be a growing attitude. I could go on but it will give me a headache.