Why I go to church

 

PeopleCrossOn the way to church last Sunday, I saw that a friend of mine had checked in on Facebook at a Buddhist temple near her home. She had not shared a status remark, only choosing an icon that indicated she was “feeling peaceful”.

This person was not raised Buddhist. In fact, she was raised in a Christian culture but had left religion some time ago. I wondered… was she looking for God again and just happened to end up in that temple? Or did she intentionally go there seeking the peace about which she posted?  I looked forward to our visit next month so we could talk about it over a meal.

But I couldn’t get it out of my mind as I pulled in to the parking lot of my own beloved place of worship.

I arrived a little late. The music had already started as I settled in to my seat and soon, the pastor began to speak. He’s an excellent teacher and normally, I don’t want to miss a word, a nuance, a pearl.

But I was distracted as I thought again about my friend who was sitting in that Buddhist temple at precisely that same moment. I wanted to understand how our experiences might be similar or how they might be different.  I started asking myself why do I go to church on Sunday mornings? Was I there, like my friend, to feel peaceful? or was there something else?

(As an aside, while peace is often found at church, sometimes it just isn’t because well, there are people there. If feeling peaceful is the main reason I go, perhaps I could spare myself the effort and just go chill on the bluff over the ocean near my house by myself. Now THAT would be peaceful.  A friend of mine once joked “church would be so great if it weren’t for all those people”.  While we might laugh at that, if we were totally honest, we might agree. People at church sometimes just bug! Sometimes they might even snub us.  And those in leadership might even fail us.  We can get hurt and jaded and as a result, we might stop going.  I’ve sure had my share of experiences along these lines and understand the initial emotions. But I digress.)

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SO… why DO I go to church?

I know I don’t go because I think I have to or because it suddenly makes me more spiritual or because I believe it is the only place where God is found. I don’t go because I think I’m better than you; in fact, I go to church because I’m a mess, because I can sometimes lose my way and forget who I am.

I go to listen to a guy I trust share from the Bible about Christ’s character and His plan and how I get to participate in it despite how flawed I am.

I go because I need community.  My grandfather used to say “if you want to become a better tennis player, than play with someone who is better than you.” I need to regularly sharpen and deepen my faith by regularly rubbing up against others who live in the way I claim to believe because frankly, sometimes my blade just gets dull.

I go to church to expose myself to even more opportunities to serve. To serve when it doesn’t fit into the schedule or when it’s unglamorous or when it’s awkward or when it costs something is service like none other. I can get pretty insular which can sometimes lead to depression and when I give or serve, I swear, it snaps me right out of it. I can serve in many places in my city and I can send a check to an NGO I trust, but to serve where you will see those people again and again… well, it’s like a shot of Vitamin B.

I go to be reminded that I’m a daughter of royalty and don’t need to be afraid of terrorism or any other earthly insecurity.

But mostly, I go to church because I’m grateful.  I can’t explain to you, but even after all these years, the idea that God would still want to hang out with broken and flawed me still surprises me.  So I go.

I go to join my spiritual family in showing appreciation for, honor and reverence and homage to Jesus… the One I love, trust, and to Whom I owe my life.

And oh yeah… we SING!

 

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”

Proverbs 27:17

“Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”

Colossians 3:16

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    To begin, let’s turn to the American civil war. In that war, dated tactics and the carnage inflicted by modern weapons of the era combined to cause ghastly results. Not generally known is that most of the deaths on both sides of that war were not the result of actual combat but to what happened after a battlefield wound was inflicted. To begin with, evacuation of the wounded moved at a snail’s pace and this caused severe delays in treating the wounded. Secondly, many wounds were subjected to wound care, related surgeries and/or amputations of the affected limbs and this often resulted in the onset of massive infection. So you might survive a battle wound only to die at the hands of medical care providers who although well-intentioned, their interventions were often quite lethal. High death tolls can also be ascribed to everyday sicknesses and diseases in a time when no antibiotics existed. In total something like 600,000 deaths occurred from all causes, over 2% of the U.S. population at the time!

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    The Obama health care plan is complex for sure – I have never seen a health care plan that isn’t. But through a variety of programs his plan attempts to deal with a) increasing the number of American that are covered by adequate insurance (almost 50 million are not), and b) managing costs in such a manner that quality and our access to health care is not adversely affected. Republicans seek to achieve these same basic and broad goals, but their approach is proposed as being more market driven than government driven. Let’s look at what the Obama plan does to accomplish the two objectives above. Remember, by the way, that his plan was passed by congress, and begins to seriously kick-in starting in 2014. So this is the direction we are currently taking as we attempt to reform health care.

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    The insurance mandate covered by points 1 and 2 above is a worthy goal and most industrialized countries outside of the U.S. provide “free” (paid for by rather high individual and corporate taxes) health care to most if not all of their citizens. It is important to note, however, that there are a number of restrictions for which many Americans would be culturally unprepared. Here is the primary controversial aspect of the Obama plan, the insurance mandate. The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to hear arguments as to the constitutionality of the health insurance mandate as a result of a petition by 26 states attorney’s general that congress exceeded its authority under the commerce clause of the U.S. constitution by passing this element of the plan. The problem is that if the Supreme Court should rule against the mandate, it is generally believed that the Obama plan as we know it is doomed. This is because its major goal of providing health insurance to all would be severely limited if not terminated altogether by such a decision.

    As you would guess, the taxes covered by point 3 above are rather unpopular with those entities and individuals that have to pay them. Medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, doctors and insurance companies all had to “give up” something that would either create new revenue or would reduce costs within their spheres of control. As an example, Stryker Corporation, a large medical device company, recently announced at least a 1,000 employee reduction in part to cover these new fees. This is being experienced by other medical device companies and pharmaceutical companies as well. The reduction in good paying jobs in these sectors and in the hospital sector may rise as former cost structures will have to be dealt with in order to accommodate the reduced rate of reimbursement to hospitals. Over the next ten years some estimates put the cost reductions to hospitals and physicians at half a trillion dollars and this will flow directly to and affect the companies that supply hospitals and doctors with the latest medical technologies. None of this is to say that efficiencies will not be realized by these changes or that other jobs will in turn be created but this will represent painful change for a while. It helps us to understand that health care reform does have an effect both positive and negative.

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    OK, this article was not intended to be an exhaustive study as I needed to keep it short in an attempt to hold my audience’s attention and to leave some room for discussing what we can do contribute mightily to solving some of the problems. First we must understand that the dollars available for health care are not limitless. Any changes that are put in place to provide better insurance coverage and access to care will cost more. And somehow we have to find the revenues to pay for these changes. At the same time we have to pay less for medical treatments and procedures and do something to restrict the availability of unproven or poorly documented treatments as we are the highest cost health care system in the world and don’t necessarily have the best results in terms of longevity or avoiding chronic diseases much earlier than necessary.

    I believe that we need a revolutionary change in the way we think about health care, its availability, its costs and who pays for it. And if you think I am about to say we should arbitrarily and drastically reduce spending on health care you would be wrong. Here it is fellow citizens – health care spending needs to be preserved and protected for those who need it. And to free up these dollars those of us who don’t need it or can delay it or avoid it need to act. First, we need to convince our politicians that this country needs sustained public education with regard to the value of preventive health strategies. This should be a top priority and it has worked to reduce the number of U.S. smokers for example. If prevention were to take hold, it is reasonable to assume that those needing health care for the myriad of life style engendered chronic diseases would decrease dramatically. Millions of Americans are experiencing these diseases far earlier than in decades past and much of this is due to poor life style choices. This change alone would free up plenty of money to handle the health care costs of those in dire need of treatment, whether due to an acute emergency or chronic condition.

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  122. Sylvia, you are so smart! I was raised Catholic and we were ‘trained’ to go to church. Unless sick or out of town, we went to church. It was a chore and I didn’t want to do it. God has met me in CEBC and I go to be with Him and see what he has for me, and what I can do for Him.

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  128. I have avoided organized religion like the plague for a long time now. I have to say that never have I ever heard a Christian churchgoing person express themselves like this.

    1. Thank you for taking the time to leave that comment Alicia. I hope you will sign up to receive future blogs as I’d love to hear from you.

  129. Nice. I think that God’s church is supposed to be exactly what you wrote. A place for folks who truly want to know God, to learn about God in a place that worships God and speaks truth about God with a group of people who know that they are nothing without God but everything with Him, created by Him for relationship with Him and redeemed by Him alone. Such love. It knows no limits. To rest in that while sitting with my beloved, crazy, wonderful church family is all I need. Ever.

  130. WHY DO I GO TO CHURCH?HMMM;I GO TO CHURCH TO WORSHIP GOD;NOW IKNOW GOD IS EVERY WHERE,AND I CAN WORSHIP HIM EVERY WHERE,BUT I GO TO CHURCH TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD,TO TELL HIM I LOVE HIM,TO THANK HIM FOR SAVING ME FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL,HOW HE REACHE DOWN AND PICKED ME UP AND SAID I HAVE BEEN WAITING A LONG TIME FOR YOU TO COME TO ME;I GO TO CHURCH TO MINGLE WITH OTHER OF GOD’S CHILDREN WHO LOVE HIM AS I DO; I GO TO CHURCH TO HEAR GOD’S WORD TAUGHT BY A BIBLE SCHOLAR,WHO GIVES ME A NEW PERSPECTIVE;I GO TO CHURCH TO SING PRAISE;I GO TO CHURCH BECAUSE I LOVE TO GO,I CAN NOT WAIT FROM ONE SUNDAY TO THE NEXT TO HEAR GOD’S WORD.I AM SOOOOOOOOOO THANKFUL GOD PLANTED ME AT CEBC,A CHURCH I CALL MY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!I GO TO CHURCH SIMPLY BECAUSE I LOVE TO GO,TO WORSHIP MY FATHER,AND TO BE NEAR THE THRONE OF GOD.I LOVE MY CHURCH,I DO NOT KNOW WHY GOD PLANTED ME THERE,BUT I HAVE A CHURCH HOME,ALL MINE AND WHERE GOD IS.I GO TO CHURCH BECAUSE I LOVE WHAT ALL IT IS AND STANDS FOR.THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND OF GOD TO ME, I LOVE YOU MOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. This woman Joyce is a bonafide angel in many of our lives. She means this stuff and I appreciate the comment so so much.

  131. You so beautifully put into words what I feel in my heart. I go to church because I want and need “family”. As a single woman with no family my church is my family. The younsters there are my children to encourage and help raise in the Lord. I go because Jesus said “where 2 or 3 are gathered in my name I am in the midst. I go to get the physical and spiritual hugs that corporate fellowship provides. I go to be fed God’s word. Sure I can study at home alone but the spiritual interaction with the “family” beats going solo any time. I go because I want to go. Jesus told me to “lnot forsake the assembling together with other believers.

  132. I recently started to attend a Universalist church but already know it’s probably not for me. I was raised in a religious home but was also disillusioned by it and left when I lost my first marriage because I felt so judged. This blog is really good though.You have said things in a way I haven’t heard religious people ever say them. Would you talk to me if I wrote a private note to you? I am inspired by you! It looks like you have written allot but not for awhile. Will you be writing more?

    1. Hi Sandra- I’m so glad you wrote. (Have we met before?) Please feel free to send me a private message through Facebook and of course, I will respond. I don’t know what city you are in but maybe I can help you find a good church to check out and give it all another go. God bless you!

  133. I completely agree with you. Sometimes, I go to church not thinking of anything and then, it is like the Pastor is talking directly to me. Some days, it is peaceful. Some days, my heart aches and I cry. I love to worship, but I can do that anywhere.

    Thank you – great Blog

  134. A friend of mine shared this on her Instagram and I liked it a lot. I’ve been disillusioned with church for a long time and haven’t dearkened a door in many years. This has made me think about checking things out with God again.

    1. Hi Jason, I hope you do as it can become your spiritual, familial, and social lifeblood. I’m glad you found me here and I hope you will “subscribe” so that you don’t miss out on future blogs.

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