why you don't go to church sundays?
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I don't believe in God! Why would I?\n\nBesides the true intention of the church was a place to convert sinners and non-believers to christianity. It was never intended as a place to gather and worship just for the christians. If you believe in a god then you are not required to attend services. The idea of required visits on sunday began with the issue of ties. You know, chances are if your not there you won't give your 10% So of couse the church wants you there.
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When you give up something for Lent, you give it up for the duration of Lent.  The "Sundays Off" loophole refers to those holy men/women who took vows of silence for Lent.  This allowed them to still pray in Church on Sunday.
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Sure, plenty of non-believers go to church for social reasons.\n\nI once had a teacher who told me that a church isn't about the building, the sacrements, the preaching, or even the dogma, its about the people.  A church is a congregation of people, if you want to go to church simply to enjoy the company of the people there, and so that they can in turn enjoy your company, where's the harm?\n\nYou are bringing light into the lives of others, and that's what really matters, not belief in a set of laws or ideas.  It doesn't matter what you believe, what matters are the lives you touch.\n\nA person who spends his entire life in a dark building praying is as useless as a pile of dust, but a person who spends his life in the company of others, making their lives better, is more usefull than anything else on this earth.
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is this a fear of churches??
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I don't feel that you have to.  But i think some people need some type of structure and assurance that they aren't alone in their journey.  I think it is definitely up to you as a person as to whether or not you need to belong to a church.  But going to church does not make you a christian.  That happens by asking Jesus Christ to be your saviour.  Just my opinion!
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You cannot love and worship the Lord and not go to church. God created the church to carry out His mission. Also the church is God's family in a small unit. There is no way a Christian can function properly apart from the church. Jesus is the head of the church. We are expected to be apart of it.\n\nChristianity is about relationships. Your relationship with God, your relationships with your brother and sisters in Chirst, and the outside world. We are referred to as His children. We belong to one another and are expected to serve one another. \n\nIf you are not part of a church you are not functioning the way God designed you to function. You have a spiritual gift that is to be used to minister to your brothers and sisters.\n\nHebrews 10:24-25 (NASB)\n\nAnd let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.\n \nYou have a responsibility to help your brothers and sisters grown in Christ. \n\nEphesians 4:11-16 (NASB)\n\nAnd He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for  the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which  belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no  longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. \n\nGod has given you a gift to be used to help your brothers and sisters grow. You need to around them so you can minister to them. There are no lone ranger Christians you are called to be apart of the body. You are called to be apart of a church.
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Well the need to worship on the sabbath was taken away by Jesus'       and resurrection. You can worship on any day of the week the reason that so many Christians chose Sunday is because that's the day that Christ rose from the grave. It's like a memorial to Him and it's a day that we are to remember all He did for us, so it seemed like a good day to worship, don't you agree? God Bless, and thanks for you good answers and questions
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Whoever says church is for the naive and weak is pretty naive and ignorant themselves and too weak to face their sin....\n\nI do go to church on my own and my parents never went. I still go because I love the sermons and hearing what my pastor teaches from the Bible. Seeing other people who know you and genuinely care how you are doing is great. \nThe difference between being a member of a church and just going to a church is you usually become a member after a little while of going to that church and you start to get involved and you decide that is the church you want to make your "home church" meaning that is where you would go every Sunday.
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when they start demanding you go by their rules or else.  Do this, do that, God says you should be this way.  If it is against the moral of the bible (do unto others) it is a cult.  When they start telling you who you can and can't see, what you can and can't do, all in the name of God and the bible.  Be true to yourself, be good always, God knows your heart.  Religion is a way to make you feel bad and do what the religion of choice says to do.  When you go to church on Sunday you are only proving to other 'people' your faith, when it is God you need to prove it too, no one else.\nEnd Rant : )
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You will go to church on Sunday and get saved and trust your life to the Lord forever more...;p
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too many children are made to go to church, and never really know why, it is just something the their parents do, going to church and being religious, however does not make you a christian.\nand these as thy grow up thing that they are Christians, but have never felt the presence of God, so they turn away and do not believe.
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well, I was a bible thumping christian for 23 years-old. Then one day I woke up and realized that all Christian's do is judge and say how everyone is going to hell if they don't believe in GOD.  Who gives them the right to say that.  I also realized that you can't force others to believe in what you  believe in.  I was always being asked by fellow church members on why I didn't have a visitor at church or why I wasn't persistent on sharing my faith with others.  I just got tired of it and left.  No one should tell you how your relationship  with god should be like, even if it's not to their standards.   I also realized that the money I thought I was giving to god wasn't going towards his work it was going into the pastors pocket, There were single mothers in our church who could barely feed there families and the pastor has five kids and a two story house and he is able to write off food and bills when it comes to taxes, cause the Church pays for it.  Yeah the CHURCH me and my money pay him so he can live like a king.  so F***religion.  I couldn't be happier with out it.
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sundays are boring and depressing.  you know you have to go back to work / school on monday.  i used to have to do my homework on a sunday.\n\nthere's no night out to look forward to, just another shitty week at work.\n\nand everything shuts early.\n\nor you have to go and see your nan\n\nsundays are crap
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"Why do ppl worship on sunday not saturday?"\n\nThere are 12 reasons why people worship on Sunday but NONE are Biblical. Below I will describe them It may be a little long.\n\n\n1) "Sunday is the New Sabbath." or "Because Jesus rose on Sunday"\nThere is NO scripture that calls Sunday the New Sabbath. The only Sabbath Day is Saturday Exodus 20:8\n\nJesus did NOT give us a new day of worship for the Resurection HE gave us baptism Romans 6:1-4, Colosians 2:12, Galatians 3:27,1 Peter 3:21. Please provide the verse that says to worship on Sunday due to the resurection.\n\n2)"The Sabbath was made for the Jews, it is only part of their law"\nThe Sabbath was made more than 2000 yrs before the first Jew existed, it was part of creation Genesis 2:1-3\n\n3)"We don't worship on the Sabbath we worship on the "Lord's Day"... Sunday"\nThe ONLY day called the Lord's day in the Bible is the Sabbath Day(Saturday) Exodus 20:8, Isa 58:13,14. Please produce the verse that calls Sunday the Lord's Day.\n\n4)"The early church changed it."\nThere is no evidence that the early church started worshiping on Sunday.\nPeople usually then quote Acts 20:7 because it says they "broke bread" on the first day... meaning communion. But if they read Acts chapter 2 it says they broke bread everyday, breaking bread means eating. I can produce 7 verses where Jesus kept the Sabbath, 6 obvious verses where the early church (Apostles, Jews AND the GENTILES) met on Sabbath to worship compared to only one ambiguous text for Sunday. The weight of the evidence is for Sabbath(Saturday) worship. \n\n5)"Jesus did away with they law on the cross."\nMany things are wrong wtih this \nA)There are 2 laws, Moral and Ceremonial. The Sabbath is part of the Moral law not Ceremonial.\nB)Jesus says in Matthew 5 that he did not come to destroy the law. \nC)They keep the others the ONLY commandment ignored and discarded starts with "REMEMBER", maybe God knew people would forget it. \nD)The ONLY laws done away with were the levitical(ceremonial laws). Col 2:14. The Sabbath day is not part of the ceremonial law... it is part of the moral law.\nE)"Sin is the transgression of the law" - 1 John 3:4\n"Where there is no law there is no sin" Romans 4:15\nIf there is no sin then Jesus didn't die for you, because you did not sin.\nF) since the law is gone can we now kill and steal and commit adultery, and worship other gods, can we disrespect our parents, or worship idols? No? then why are you trying to do away with the only one that starts off with "REMEMBER". \nG) Paul in Romans says we are to uphold the Law\n\n6)"It doesn't matter" or "We can't tell which day is the Sabbath\nA)The commandment doesn't say pick a 7th day it says THE 7th Day is the Sabbath. The Jews in Edodus 16 said it doesnt "matter which day" and God told them it does matter, and we know which day is the Sabbath the Jews have kept it for thousands of years.\nB) Luke 22-23 says Jesus rose the day after the Sabbath so if you can't tell which day is the Sabbath then you can't tell which day is Sunday\n\nThe first person to say "It doesn't matter how we worship God" is Cain. Cain said "it doesn't matter how we worship God as long as we give something." Was he right?\n\n7)"We are under the New covenant"\nHebrews 8:7-12 says\nFor if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the PEOPLE and said "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because THEY DID NOT REMAIN FAITHFUL TO MY COVENANT, and I turned away from them, decla
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Unfortunately there are 'Christians'  who are Christians on Sunday just to look good for some people and for the rest of the week they are in the strip clubs, liqueur stores, and doing horrible things that they think no one sees.  It is also unfortunate that they will have a Jesus fish on the back of their car while it sits in the parking lot of a strip club or when they give somebody the finger in traffic.\n\nThen there are true Christians who actually try to do what they are supposed to do and get harassed for something they did not even say or do.  \n\nI have noticed some people say its because Christians tell them they are going to hell.  I have never told anyone that they were going to hell-even when I went out witnessing. If it weren't for Jesus I would be going to hell too.
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There are many who go to church who CLAIM to be a Christian but in reality they have no true relationship with God.  They go because they think they are supposed to, because it looks good, because they are trying to score points, for approval ... etc.\n\nBut as I stated in another post... there will be many who will say "Lord, Lord" and the Lord will say "I know you not".\n\nThat all said, we should be striving to remove sin from our lives.  No one is perfect, true.  But when we are doing something wrong, we need to try and remove that from our life.  Some will successfully, some will fail and try again, and some will never be able to do it.  The point is that God sees the desire of your heart.  So if you are true to your intentions and desires, God will know.\n\nNow if you go to church and you know you shouldn't be sinning, you know that you are sinning by doing {insert action here} and you knowingly disregard any attempt to remove that sin from you life, then you have a problem.\n\nGenerally speaking those who are being hypocritical are either not truly a Christian OR they are blinded by sin in their life and we as brothers and sisters in Christ need to call them on their hypocrisy.
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No, I did not, but I do want to go to Church.  The problem I have is that I have a disabled child and two other children.  We did go once and it was awful because we spent the whole time trying to keep our child quiet.  The other two boys were OK and could go off to special groups for the children.  It was quite a stressful experience, so now I try to pray at home.  A pity really, because I wanted my children to grow up knowing all about Church and the meaning of Christmas and Easter.