June 2008 Weddings
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Re: POLL: S/O Church
As a teenager and now as an adult I've became an Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas church goer.
I lived with my mother, who was divorced, twice, and has a gay brother. Plus her church when she was growing up was home to one of the biggest names in the priest scandal (my uncles were victims), so no church for me growing up.
My parents both work for the church (corporately-as a lawyer and an accountant), so we grew up very involved in the church. I became a Christian on my own as a high schooler, my brother did the same though I think he's sorta drifted as a young adult, and my sister is not a Christian now. My parents work for the ELCA, which is a very open, accepting faith (which my sister supports).
We do not attend an ELCA church now and never have. I worked for the ELCA as a youth intern (nationally) for a summer, and loved it, but it is still too "traditional" for how DH and I prefer worship. They are contemporary in their beliefs, but still have pretty traditional liturgy. We started going to a non/inter denominational church in college and recently joined a new church plant here that we are loving. Contemporary worship, awesome kids ministry, lots of young people (great friends, etc) and the pastor makes the scripture so relevant. We look forward to the message and find ourselves talking about it later, which is significant for us. But, it took us YEARS to find the right church, and that was discouraging. Glad we stuck with it though.
The holidays that I was with my dad - I went to church. I think I have only been in a church with my mother for funerals and my wedding. Honestly. I just thought of that and it's very strange to me. My mom has never been much of a church go-er.
My dad, stepmom, and little brother go brother 2-3 times a month now (maybe more). My little brother goes to the Catholic school here in town.
I still only go for holidays...if that. I feel about about that, but dh and I have not found a church that we particularly like and feel motivated (I'm not sure that's the correct work) to go to.
I was forced to go to church every Sunday along with religion class on Wednesday evenings (1st through 10th grade). My dad's side of the family is extremely religious and was constantly shoving catholicism down my throat. Once I was confirmed in 10th grade I was allowed to decide if I wanted to keep going to church, I chose to never go again. Weddings and funerals are now the only occasion that I will go to church.
Aspen Marley ~ 12.22.11
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I grew up going to church every weekend. It wasn't an option to not go.