Travelling long distance to Church, when there's Churches nearby?

This really depends on your criterion Mikey. Do you have small children and married, do you consider the trip worth the time, how can you be active in a church that far away, you know stuff like that.

I’ve found great solis in listening to broadcast sermons ... sometimes broadcast live from my far away church so I don’t make the trip... and if I joined them I know I’d having regular attendance.

 

My personal opinion is that, if this is the church where you know God has placed you, it would be better to move closer than to find a new church for convenience sake.

 

Mikey I was in a church for over 50 years, I started going with my folks at the age of seven and it is hard to measure the joy I found in the Lord in the church among the saints of God... This was a small family church and the one closes to our belief was a two hour drive... I watched our church in 50 years , dwindle down to a few, with death of members and other various problems but with cost of upkeep and various other expenses we had to close our doors.

Around this same time, I lost my wife, I watched die for four years to kidney cancer and I had a grown disabled grown son to raise... It came to a grown man age fifty-seven asking the Lord what now?... Little did I know the Lord had a plan because I sure didn't... So I put it in his hands... One month after I lost my wife I met another Christian lady and joined her church and we got married... The Lord found a place for my disabled son and he has got a beautiful life... This lady and I have been married over 14 years now... The Lord did not place me where I needed to go but he placed where he needed me to go... When you are raised in a small church in my humble opinion your view of Gods people is limited... He needed to expand my view... My advice to you is pray and surrender to the will of God and let go... Let the Lord place you because he knows where you need to go, even when you don't... Brother Glen

 

Well-said, Tyndale1946!

We don't wannabee like well-known KJVO fanatic Will Kinney who says he doesn't attend any nearby churches cuz they're not KJVO.

We are blessed to have a nearby Indy Fundy Baptist church nearby which doesn't follow any man-made doctrines of faith/worship, which is what I believe as well. But if something were to make it no longer available to us, I'd fervently ask GOD to lead me to where He wanted me to go.

While some might not find a "perfect" church to them, I believe if we let GOD do the leading, we'll end up where HE wants, be it "perfect" for us or not.

 

I believe that's where I ended up.

 

I have a preacher friend of mine been preaching over 60 years... He grew up in Mississippi and loved the people and the church, where they ordained him... He wanted to preach where he grew up as he knew these people and loved them... An opportunity presented came up in California but he told the Lord I don't want to go to California... I don't know anybody in California... He fought, and fought, and fought it but ended up where the Lord needed him to go California... Not where he thought he needed to stay... Jonah didn't want to go to Ninevah either... Brother Glen

 

But I'm happy to be in my not perfect place. I'm growing, and I pray that I'm helping.

And I praise God that His preparation of me has so far not involved being tossed overboard.

 

Yeah!... You don't want to end up in the whale!... Brother Glen

 

Yeah, he's taken a beating for his convictions, that's for sure.

I think I might be in the middle of fighting Him, but it's hard to say...we'll see.
For now, there are a myriad of reasons I don't go to church at the moment...perhaps the Lord will show me where to go in my area.

The only one I know of that "fits the bill" wants to re-baptize me to identify with its teachings....which I already believe and which I wasn't aware, when I was baptized 40 years ago, that I was identifying with anyone but my Saviour and His words.

There's a part of me that hates traditional churches, mostly because I see them set up as businesses or country clubs that take in dues and require "membership", rather than families that meet each other's needs and pray for them...but that would take up a whole 'nother thread to discuss.

Me, too at times. I like Free Grace Radio, select preachers off Sermon Audio and the occasional YouTube videos.



May God bless you all.

 

Praise the Lord that you live in a time and a place where there is this sort of choice.

 

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