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canitosmomma
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"wherever there are two or more gathered, I am there." This is only my opinion, but the theory of church is for fellowshiping ( not sure that is a word lol). I too was raised for most of my younger years by my grandpa, who was a pastor. He was one of those country preachers that could lift you up so high with a sermon that you would have to look down to see heaven. If the doors were open I was there. At the age of about 13 I became disenchanted with the church that I had attended for all those years, when like it was mentioned previously, I saw the people that had been out the night before drinking it up and cheating on their spouses. These same people were the ones that were sitting in the front pews saying amen and hallelujah the loudest. Not wanting to give up attending church altogether, I attended several (14 to be exact, that is how many we had in our town) and continued to be left wanting. I decided to talk to the one that I felt wouldn't give me the answer, but who would help guide me to where I could find my own answers, my grandpa. By this time he had long since left the pulpit, was a little hard of hearing, unable to perform the duties as a deacon but was still as much in love with his Lord and Savior as the day he began his journey. After listening to me ramble on and on, he asked me a question. He asked me "Why do you attend services?" I thought he had lost his mind, but I answered him as best I could because I knew he never asked a question lightly. I told him I attended to feel closer to and worship the Lord. He just shook his head and said "Baby you don't have to attend an organized service to do that." Now I really thought that he had started to slip. I asked him "Well, why did you feel the need to minister?" He said shoot thats easy, I wanted to bring the word to those that may not know Him. Your granny always said that I could talk the horns off a billygoat, so I thought as long as I like to talk I might as well talk about something that I felt strongly about and the rest is history. He said when he started out he didn't do his worshiping in the church all the time. There were stretches that he never set foot in a church, but he still worshipped. It could have been when he was plowing a field, hunting, walking or driving down the road, etc. He told me "Baby the Lord doesn't care where it is that you worship Him, as long as you take the time and do it with love in your heart." I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes, just felt the need to share.
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