Friday, February 25, 2011
What I can Remember.....
I remember from being smaller that my mom would take me to church. I don't really remember my little sister being there but she probably was. I started my walk with God as a teenager in the Lutheran religion. Me, my mom would go faithfully every Sunday and I was even enrolled in communion classes. You had to be a certain age to take the classes and you had to take the classes in order to take communion with the rest of the church. My dad has never gone to church with us. But, from what I told when he was little he would go all the time. My dad is Southern Baptist and my mom of course Lutheran. I remember my mom use to talk about her mom and dad were Lutheran too. Anyways, me and my mom would go faithfully and then he started to go on only holidays. You know Christmas, Easter and so forth and, now she doesn't go at all. My little sister, my dad or mom just stopped going all together. So, for many years I did not go to church either. I would sprucely go but would never commit to one church. I always loved the Lord but just wasn't ready to walk completely with him. I do remember that when I lived in South Carolina I started to go to a church on a regular basis I went because one of my co-workers who I befriended invited me and at that time I did not have a car so she would pick me up and drop me off every Sunday. Church service at that time was long and sometimes I would say that I couldn't handle the church overflow and would not go more than once a week. But, the funny thing about fellowship is that when you get to know that people in your church, the attendees, even the pastor and his wife you want to come more. You want to experience a spiritual walk with somebody. I have had people that I have walked with, people that get excited to see me in church, people to talk about God with and people that I get to know through volunteer work. The more you fellowship with God's people the more comfortable you are, the more you want to go to church, and the more you see that they are just like you. So, I started to fellowship, get to know people in church and my friend stopped going. I continued to go. I did make that my church home and attended faithfully for over a year. I remember that at that time I was not really about spending holiday's at the church, I wanted to be in the club, I wanted to be somewhere else. I spend new year's 2004 there. I had stopped going to that church because they were always taking an offering but nothing was getting fixed. Right before I stopped going I started volunteering in children's ministry and this was my first time that I started volunteering my time. I started going to this larger church in South Carolina, I did feel out of place but was always curious about the words that were put on the screen during service. Who did it? How did it work? Things like that but, I never asked. I would say that I went to that church for about 6 months and then I decided to spend my summer in Wyoming with my parents. They don't go to church so, I didn't either. I then moved to Illinois where I am now. I have been going to the same church for about 3 1/2 years and have actually volunteered in the media ministry where I get to put the words on the screen, lol, and I have volunteered in children's ministry for over 2 years. I do attend faithfully. Wednesdays and Sundays every week. My point in reviewing my walk is because in the beginning I didn't really know what was going on and I didn't really have a solid foundation. I have created a foundation and I love church now. I could never get the overflow like I once did. I have meet more people volunteering than actually just attending. My walk has because I great with the Lord because I just let go. When you start to love the Lord completely you will want to go to church, you will want to fellowship, and you will want to volunteer. If you haven't gone to church in a while, it's never too late to start again. God has never left you and never will.
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