Does $4.00 a gallon gas mean:
 

Does $4.00 a gallon gas mean:

1. More Pastors will go to one service on Sunday because people will not drive to two services anymore, thus cost more to run A/C & Heating with less offering coming in?

2. People will quit attending things that are on the church calendar, thus reducing fellowship?

3. Will there be many home churchs starting up in cities?

4. Nothing, people will continue to drive to be at church events?

5. Only those living 20 miles away from church will not show up as ofton?

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I live more than 20 miles from my church and it certainly affects me going. Though I do not miss very often. If money is tight one week I might not hit the night service, but that has been rare thus far, but it might get more common.

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I think it will effect the churches in the large metro areas first.

I believe it will be the final straw for those who were already
considering cutting out sunday night services

I think it's going to simplify our lives

there wont be as many saints going out of town on the weekends
this could make for a better attendance and will be a good thing
for those of us who depend on the saintschurch attendance to get
our jobs done effectively

I don't think it it will hurt local church fellowship - perhaps just
simplifiy it like having more potlucks, baseball games etc

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Mark do you play any kind of softball/baseball?

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I think a lot of people are going to start skipping midweek services even more than before.

In many churches, those services are poorly attended anyway, so high gas prices just give people even more reason to skip them.

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haven't in a long lomg time but enjoyed it at one time
bad back

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If $4.00 per gallon gas is here to stay it might mean a reversing of the trend in urban areas of people driving long distances to attend mega churches that offer more classes, activities for young people, etc and a return to people looking for neighborhood churches.

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Hopefully it will hasten the rebirth of the home church.

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I think we will see more house church and or
home fellowships in the future.

some will be in conjunction with having traditional
church but less of it

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It won't for me! To me home church is the last resort. If you are in a town with no church or if the church becomes persecuted and has to move underground.

I am just not into the hippie "let's all strum a guitar and sing before we share the word" kinda thing!

I can understand it being what some folks like and want but I love going to church and having great music complete with a wide variety of musical instruments played well helping bring folks into one mind and one accord and ushering in the presence of God. Do we have to have it? No but we don't have to have air conditioning either but I am not doing without it unless I just have to!

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:happydance:happydance:

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CC, you are still just about as silly as ever... :toofunny

Reminds me of those crazy people who make the silly assumption that all homeschooled kids are being raised by religious nuts who are afraid of "exposing their kids to the world"...

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$4 for a gallon of gas means that we're not paying almost $10 a gallon like they are paying in England! I am HAPPY to pay only $4 per gallon when I think of like that! However, I do wish I lived closer to Mexico so I could pay $1 per gallon less. But, hey, I'll take the blessings as they come. :D

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Our church has already mentioned going to one service on Sunday, and we have started some home church services in the mid week due to traffic congestion on Wednesdays. The attendance on Wed. nights are way down. I think it is the price of gas and in our case difficulty with traffic congestion.

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It won't change my church attendance. My church is three miles from my house. Even when the new church is finished, it will only be about 5 miles away... so it's not going to matter what the price of gas is. I'm not missing church unless I'm absolutely too sick to get out of bed to go.

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Most will subtract their extra gas expense from their giving.

Regardless of what many on this forum say abour tithing it is the plain truth.

If it cost you $10.00 to get to and from church.

The church will most likely get $10.00 less.