I would like to suggest to the questioner some more serious reasons a person might not attend the second or even the first of any services on the Lord's Day. Isn't the reason we are to gather together for our mutual edification and support, for planning ways to spread God's love and plan for salvation to others? If any given church cannot muster up support in these areas a sincere searching of individual hearts and minds of the church is needed. Also, another reason for not attending church, assuming this is a church led by born again believers, teaching biblical doctrine, my reasons for not attending even a first church service is that I am a born again believer, saved alone at this point, in a family of wholly unsaved people. My spouse and children attend an apostate church. Until recently I worked in the early morning hours even on Sunday so many Sundays was simply physically unable to attend. Also, with some unemployment issues in our family there is no money for gas, and after asking two other church families for a "ride to church", I have stopped asking and so stopped attending church. I would like to attend a church in the next town, but it is an hour to drive there and we cannot afford that at thist ime. |
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