Are there any other Christains out there who do not go to church?
924888
Me.  I even Pastored my own Church...go figure.
142895
Are you crazy?  Only 10% of Catholic even go to church each Sunday.  Are you asking why are they not preaching on street corners, or knocking on doors.  I accept there would be value to that.  \n\nThere are some small groups, Legion of Mary for example that visit homes and encourage prayer and practice.  St Vincent de Paul Society carry out welfare work in the name of the Church as well as praying together.  Orders of Nuns have set up Hospitals.  Many orders (nuns and brothers) set up schools.  Chaplains and lay-people are appointed to help Seaman at ports, the blind, defence forces personal, Scripture lesson at state schools- buy the thousands, the elderly, the deaf, the house bound, prisoners; there are priest scientists, church sponsored counsellors, marriage guidance, pregnancy help, I'll stop...  it surprises me just how many Church Ministries are carried out without making a big fuss.
294673
I was baptized as a Christian, and I believed in God during my younger childhood years. But my family has never gone to church since I can remember, and religion now is not at all a part of my life. I don't believe in any religion anymore. I rarely even think or wonder about God, or whether or not there even is one. I might consider myself agnostic, but even that could be going too far because I really have no feelings about religion at all.
399295
I own a 3 bedrom, 2 bath house.\nI rent out a room to a guy who is like a half Buddhist, half Hindu.\nHe has a little statue of Krishna in his room. He says he does not worship it, but i doubt him.\nWhat i do is just live Christ. I Love him like a brother and treat him with kindness.\nWe debate a little here & there, and we see eye-to-eye on a few things.\nHe once went to Church with me.\nHe has not yet accepted Christ, but i believe he one day will.\nI have given him to God, and i pray for him.\nJust live the Life and focus on the Word.\nThe rest you leave to God.\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/\n\nI JOHN 5:21\n    Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
200844
I dont go to church- my fellowship is among my fellow Christians that I worship and praise with- The Church that is required is the people, not the building.  Fellowship is what we are guided to do, and for some, that works better in a church.  More power to them, but I do not need a building.\n\nIn fact, many people that go to a church to worship only do it once or twice a week.  If we are supposed to pray without ceasing- and worshipping should be an everyday practice- I dont appreciate being judged by people saying I am wrong for not going.  Just as I think its wrong to say people are wrong for going to church.\n\nI am NOT against going to church, I just dont feel comfy in the ones I have been to.  The last one I went to was AWESOME, but I had a falling out with a friend who claims to be super christian, but her and many of the people at that church enjoyed gossipping and slandering me- I dont think I am missing much by not going if thats what most churches are like (and from experience, it is like that in every church if you dont fit the code they have for people)
476008
That is a very good question.\n\nI myself am Presbyterian, but i do not go to Church weekly, nor do i pray.\n\nI am a nurse and i have pretty much spent the majority of my time in servitude to others making them have a better quality of life wherever possible.\n\nI may not believe in god entirely but i do believe that everything happens for a reason... BECAUSE i know it to be true through life's experiences.\n\nSo i think yes, there is a good place for good people when they go.
966384
BRAVO! BRAVO!!\nYou got it that right, for sure!  I have spent the last 15 years of my life in Bible study and enjoying that relationship with God, \nand studying prophecy, etc - even the Biblical languages --BUT:\nI do not attend any church. Why?  Because the churches are so steeped in the traditions of man, and church systems that they are biblically illiterate.  If they knew what the Word really says, and lived by it, they would not be judging anybody to hell.  They  make a divorced person sit in the back pew and treat them as a second-class christian, for example, when the Bible does not declare divorce a sin - adultery is the sin, not divorce.  And,\nupon repentance it is wiped away-gone- God doesn't even want it brought up again in prayer.  And, a person is free then to re-marry.  Salvation isn't free, it was bought with an awesome price,\nso that with repentance we could be free in Christ.  Sometimes I wonder where they do get some of their nonsense from - I can tell you - it certainly isn't from God.  Mans traditions make void the Word of God.  God states that a Christian who acts "holier than thou" is like a smoke in his nose - do you know what you do when smoke gets in your nose? You get rid of it.
1147757
I HAVENT GIVEN UP MY GOD LORD AND SAVIOR... THE GOD WHO HAS GIVEN TO MUCH IN MY LIFE... NOT MANY .. I HAVE MOVED A COUPLE OF TIME BECAUSE OF SAFTY PURPOSES AND THEN MY HUSBAND JOINED THE MILITARY SO I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO FIND A HOME BASE CHURCH... BUT I HAVE GONE TO CHURCH AND DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS TEACHINGS AND FOLLOW HIM AS MUCH AS I CAN..
448709
I haven't gone to church for about 8 yrs.\nI stopped going and I am not planning on going back.\nBut, me and that spirit in the sky are on good terms... we have an understanding. \nlol\n:)
134694
Even if you dont go to church god will always love you.. he will always love you no matter wut and forgive you for anything u do..! its ok that you dont go to church on a daily basis.. but if you want to get closer with him u should try and go mor often but i u cant u shud read more of the bible and learn more about the him. Hes gret..!
200839
I don't believe in god . . . but if I did . . . I would give up unbiblical requirements . . . . such as lent, tithe, the cross, trinity . . .etc.
623525
I would drive to wherever I was led to attend no matter the distance.  \n\nAnd to the person who answered that you don't need to attend church to worship... While that is true The Bible tells us in Hebrews 10:25 "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." (Hebrews 10:25)
536227
if we aren't in church... and your typing this - your not in church either..hmmmmm  besides I've already found God... now its His turn to hide....lol...
377016
I'm a Christian, but many times I think if I wasn't I'd be so turned off by how some other Christians behave/act/talk.  In the name of Christ, they do some really outrageous stuff or twist the scriptures to fit their own agenda. Or act SO radically ridiculous  that it is a total turnoff to those who maybe are seeking. It's only a small handful of people, mind you, but those few can really spoil it for those that are genuinely trying to walk day to day and show God's love in every circumstance.  I consider myself a radical Christian, but mellowed by age, and a general sense of not wanting to turn off and offend every person I meet!
632235
probably. I'm from the UK but I don't go to church. But I would have thought so.
921115
I don't go to church, though I am a Christian.  I am a republican, but left my church because it preached the republican agenda from the pulpit.  Politics has no place in the church
15224
I believe in God, and I'm definitely Christian, but I can't identify any more than that. I would say that I'm nondenominational, but nowadays that's a denomination in and of itself (which doesn't make sense, so go figure). I do think my beliefs tend to be more Baptist, although I'm not active in any sense of the word. A believer without works would describe me well.