Ditching Church in Your 20s
Did you ditch church in your 20s? If you did, you're not alone. New research shows that many 20-year olds are leaving Protestant churches in record numbers. Some go back, but not many.
If you went back to church after a long abscence, motivated you? If you didn't, what kept you away?
Check out the story online at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-08-06-church-dropouts_N.htm
posted by Jill @ 9:40 AM
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Well...I had a crazy ride back to the church. And the church I came home to was not the Disciples of Christ church of my youth but the mother of all churches, the Catholic Church.
I was disenchanted with the seeming lack of depth in my childhood church and the squelching of my questions with "Children shouldn't ask about that." I ran as far as I could, into atheism, when I reached college. All the time, I was reading loads of different philosophy texts and learning a lot about different faiths and beliefs.
After that, I felt a deep need for spirituality and found it in a women's group which honored God as Goddess and the earth and women's lives as sacred. This unique and wise group of women sustained me for about 5 years and I thank them from the bottom of my heart. I think that it was this opening of my heart to something infinite and loving that mirrored my own experience that sowed the ground of my heart with seeds for my conversion.
After a couple of years in "limbo" I began having dreams of the Mother of Jesus, Mary Immaculate. (The feast of her Assumption into heaven is tomorrow). She basically spiritually "bullied" me, very gently of course, into going to mass and finally joining the Church. She truly led me to her Son, and I am still overwhelmed by the care she showed me.
I don't know where I would be now without my faith and the sacraments of the Church. I'm so glad to be home!
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