I look at my friend's churches (more than one), and I see the way how they put their church friends above all their other friends, how their church friends fall under their "top friends" (not that I know of anyone how rates their friends but you get my drift), how they talk to each other during the week (a whole group not just two mutually exclusive people), how they actually go out with each other during the week and not just on Sundays...And I realise my church is so different. No one goes out with each other (except those that are attached to each other which is kinda DUH right), there's no group of friends- everyone's so 'alone' or with their siblings and they just go home after service. In a way that's good because there's no 'exclusive group' to outcast them or intimidate them, but on more ways than one it could be seen as bad because who's going to talk to them when the people in church don't even talk to those already in church, much less newcomers. And who's there to welcome them if the churchgoers themselves feel unwelcomed? Friendships are so superficial it's mostly 'fun' because we're poking fun at each other calling them 'fat' 'short' 'weird' and we all say "it's fun it's swell" but at the end of the day how much more do we know about each other, other than the fact he/she's 'fat' 'short' 'weird' and how much more do we learn about ourselves? I'm not saying that each and every friendship that we have has to be deep because that's just being unrealistic and scary. I'm just saying that I wish church would mean more to me, and more to the people in my church to the extent that we would bother forging true friendships and church would be a place we can call our 'second home'. True you might refute me and say that church is about worshipping God and nothing else, but didn't the Bible say that fellowship is important too?
I'm so tempted to say "Whatever" and walk away from all this but I won't because the fact is that I do care. I just don't know how to solve everything. In any case, rant's over. Goodnight.
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