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I have to say I am getting very tired and turned off by organized religion. I do consider myself a Christian, I believe that Jesus died to save us from our sins, and I pray regularly. I am currently Catholic, but I have been to just about every kind of Christian church. I realized that I just don't care for organized church and how all of them seem to revolve around money. Its all about tithing and giving money, or you're looked down on as being some sort of inferior Christian. All the while I see how much money is spent and wasted on unneccessary material things, and I wonder what is the point? Personally I feel closer to God by taking a walk through the woods or spending time with my children than by sitting in a pew listening to some guy in a collar telling me why I should give them more money....
When I finally got it through my head that "organized " religion was the works of man, not God I turned away from it and turned to God..
I have the peace of knowing that Christ is the head of his church and that He will place us where He desires us to do His work..Some are in organized religions, some are elsewhere according to the gifts they are blessed with..
Despite what "organized religion" wants us to believe, I have confidence that His Church is alive and well and that it continues to grow..
I have to say I am getting very tired and turned off by organized religion. I do consider myself a Christian, I believe that Jesus died to save us from our sins, and I pray regularly. I am currently Catholic, but I have been to just about every kind of Christian church. I realized that I just don't care for organized church and how all of them seem to revolve around money. Its all about tithing and giving money, or you're looked down on as being some sort of inferior Christian. All the while I see how much money is spent and wasted on unneccessary material things, and I wonder what is the point? Personally I feel closer to God by taking a walk through the woods or spending time with my children than by sitting in a pew listening to some guy in a collar telling me why I should give them more money....
I could accept your frustration with organized religion but to base it on money really does not compute and frankly is an unfair assessment of organized religion.
No. I'm not sure what sort of minister would do that and why a congregation would tolerate it (the financial affairs of the church should not be his business).
To be honest my conflict was that i was under it's clutches not so much by being involved in it but by being part of it but being mentally conditioned by it without being aware of it. But thank the Lord He opened my eyes to it and began to set me free from it, even to this day.
At first when he opened my eyes to the bondage i was in , i was deeply deeply upset and in regret and remorse , until He made clear to me He meant it for my God and still used it to do a work in my heart.
And your saying that 1 Corinthians 16:1-3 isn't a organized religion, but a lot people doing their own thing? .....hardly.
"Now about the collection for God's people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. Then, when I arrive, I will give letters of introduction to the men you approve and send them with your gift to Jerusalem."
I was part of "organized religion" until the pastor told our group that the Assembly was the authority on doctrine and pursuing revelation directly from God was basically forbidden. The pastor was the authority on seeking Him, in other words.
(Our Sunday school class also met Wednesday night, where we would engage in intense worship and body ministry; the rest of the church perceived it as a threat, as through our worship we came to see the total authority and lordship of God - and the complete restoration of creation through the work of the Cross.
Personally I feel closer to God by taking a walk through the woods or spending time with my children..
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