Why I Stopped Going to Church

"Going to church is less an act and more a mentality. It is a way of thinking, a paradigm within which one approaches the Christian life itself. Within the "church system" is intertwined a web of interrelated practices: worship services, sermons, offerings, prayers, hymn singing, spiritual instruction and other religious undertakings, all occurring at a given time and in a place deemed holy or special apart from private life. Along with this package comes a clergy, those who are paid for performing religious services, and a laity, the rest of us who perform our religious duty by supporting those who keep the church running. Little of this has anything to do with being the church described in the New Testament"

Why I stopped going to church...