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The truth is:
Most of us have been hurt at some point by someone in a church or in charge of a church or professing to belong to some church or be the janitor thereof. That's not a good enough reason to neglect the house of God and disrespect His people and good men of God.
In fact, I can't think of any reason that would be good enough.
I think we should get together with other people who love God as often as possible, to fellowship with them and to worship God together. It takes humility to gather together with other imperfect people, realizing that we're also imperfect, and we are united by the idea that we ALL need GOD to help us along the way.
It's not really about "how many church services", but rather, what judgmentalism would cause us to disfellowship people who love God and get together to worship Him? What makes us superior, that we can't bless them with our presence in a service?
I can understand needing a sabbatical...maybe...after something traumatic. It happened to us once. But we diligently searched for a place, and corrected the situation as soon as possible. It's a dangerous thing to alienate yourself from other Christians. THAT's how CULTS are formed--not the other way around.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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