I pretty much agree with what you have posted, but I have to admit that I do not really attend church anymore. Part of it was discomfort with the seating b/c of my spine, but another part, I have to admit is sadly the personality clashes. Not so much personality clashes, but I have not yet found a church in which I feel at home. I used to have that in my home church, but I do have that there anymore ever since our old pastor left. If the preachers at most places were just my friend and we disagreed on things important to me, that would be fine. But to go to a church that is led by people who, if they knew what I really thought about certain things, would not only call me disagree with me, but view me as a heretic, of Satan; where other members cuss me out for doing things I shouldn't do b/c I am a woman, and churches where most of the ppl who aren't much younger than me or elderly, have beat me up emotionally and physically for how I live,(where I live isn't very big and we all know each other) and continue to harass me and make me miserable when they see me - well I have yet to find a church in my area that this in not pervasive in. I would like to find a church where I am not branded a heretic, where I am welcomed, that feels like home, and I am still looking. Sometimes it makes me think I need to just leave this area.
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