Question: Returning to Church Life

by Elizabeth
(Texas)

I'm 52 and struggling with returning to church society.

How do I get up the nerve to return? How do I choose a church home?

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Is this bad?
by: Anonymous

Im 15 and i dont go to church but believe in him all the way. I want to go to church but its complicated. What do i do?

Returning to church life
by: Elizabeth

Thank-you so much. It sounds like you made the right choice and you're happy. You have inspired me and I will definitely use your advice. I'm not sure why I have so much anxiety about getting back into church but I do know GOD loves me and I am going to have to rely more on that.

Finding your way home to church
by: Dian of NC

Hello, I know just how you are feeling at this time in your life. In 2003 I was alone and had strayed away from God, moved back home after a horrible marriage and church and my mother kept asking me to please get back into church. I knew she was right. I wanted a church that I could play handbells in and do lots with music. As I traveled to different churches, I did not find one that even posted practices for handbells or much of anything that really interested me. I realize now that I was putting stipulations up to God and not letting him lead me where he knew that I was suppose to be. After 4-6 months of "church shopping," so to speak, my mother told me of one other church that she had heard was a good church. When I arrived and before I could get one foot on the ground to get out of my car, I was met by 2 people that welcomed me there and made me feel welcomed to their church. It was not until I went inside and the worship service started that I really knew that this was where God really wanted me to be and work for him. I felt the Holy Spirit surround me and began to bathe my woounds in my heart and a healing process began in my heart. This experience reminded me of the time that I accepted Jesus into my heart at age 7. There was a feeling that ame over me and maed me know that this was of God and that he would bless it for all eternity. My thought to you is to keep searching and one day God will let you know where you need to be, because he has a work for each of his children and he knows where that work will start and end. Keep praying and searching. God will lead you if you let him.

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Hello, I know just how you are feeling at this time in your life. In 2003 I was alone and had strayed away from God, moved back home after a horrible marriage and church and my mother kept asking me to please get back into church. I knew she was right. I wanted a church that I could play handbells in and do lots with music. As I traveled to different churches, I did not find one that even posted practices for handbells or much of anything that really interested me. I realize now that I was putting stipulations up to God and not letting him lead me where he knew that I was suppose to be. After 4-6 months of "church shopping," so to speak, my mother told me of one other church that she had heard was a good church. When I arrived and before I could get one foot on the ground to get out of my car, I was met by 2 people that welcomed me there and made me feel welcomed to their church. It was not until I went inside and the worship service started that I really knew that this was where God really wanted me to be and work for him. I felt the Holy Spirit surround me and began to bathe my woounds in my heart and a healing process began in my heart. This experience reminded me of the time that I accepted Jesus into my heart at age 7. There was a feeling that ame over me and maed me know that this was of God and that he would bless it for all eternity. My thought to you is to keep searching and one day God will let you know where you need to be, because he has a work for each of his children and he knows where that work will start and end. Keep praying and searching. God will lead you if you let him.

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