[Sundaycommunity] WHY PEOPLE WALK AWAY FROM CHURCH

[Lee Piepgrass]

I read it, Brian, and I thought it was pretty good, right on the money in many cases. And even though it deals more with “Christian,” even evangelical Christian, rather than explicitly “Catholic” churches, there were many points, I felt, that were well taken and could equally apply to us. My kids like yours don’t go to church and have not baptized their kids. I support them in their choices, which make sense to me on many levels. Don and I always counselled then not to mistake religion for spirituality. They all have healthy spiritual outlooks, they like young people mentioned in the article, don’t find nurturance for that part of their lives in any church.

If it weren’t for our community and others like it over the years, I might not have made it this far.

Thanks for this, even if you didn’t read it.

Lee

> On Mar 3, 2021, at 3:43 AM, Brian Shaughnessy via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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> 
> Why People Walk Away from Church. A Post-Church Christian Reflects on the… | by Dan Foster | Backyard Church | Medium
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> I haven't read the article.  Don't feel I have to.  I have a pretty good idea from personal experience.
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> It's ironic.  The main reason we moved over in 1991 from St. Peter's Church to here was because our kids were in the public system, having started there for French immersion and with the approval of some of the younger Paulists.
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> The "CIC" having at that time two very lively and active youth groups, a senior and a junior, that our kids much enjoyed until the time came for them to go off to university, Val to McGill and Tony to Waterloo.
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> Now not one of our three go to Mass anymore.
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> We have 5 grandchildren, not one of them baptized.
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> "You can lead a horse to water.  But you can't make it drink."
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> "Into Your hands, Lord, I commend all of our spirits."
> 
>         Brian S.
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