Save our Churches !!!!!

[Windsor87]

I've declared war on my local church (Church of Scotland).

I had an eye opener when the last minister (who did the church alot of good) was basically forced out by his Elders (session).

After he went, they were all keen to get their slice of the duty to exaggerate their own importance. The all voted in their little groups of friends to ensure that they got their own way and to hell with everyone else!

Now they are up a certain creek and lacking a vital piece of boating equipment.

The committee which was elected to choose a new minister (elected by popularity) has failed miserably after 3/4 years of searching. With the lack of a minister, income is decreasing rapidly. The ageing comgregation is becoming less and less. The church youth is nothing but hypocritical. The worst kind of sinners during the week, but saints on Sunday mornings.

I used to attend church every Sunday, but now I'm an athiest. I haven't attended church by choice for over a year and a half now. I'm still connected to the BB's through loyalty to friends (as an Officer). On the occassional Sunday (about twice a year) I'm required in church I don't sing their songs, I don't do their prayers, and I refuse to give them any of my money.

All in all, it is fair to say that church with its scores of hypocrites has well and truely pissed me off.

I'm having a good laugh watching the sides of that church fall in all because of the power hungry, self obsesses and self promoting 'Sunday Christians' inside. My mother is an Elder of that Church and so I am privy to many secrets. Basically, they are doomed!

(PS. I'm sure that everything I have stated is particular to this one church. Please don't be offended if you are a proper Christian).

[Elliebob]

If you think the people who go to church are hypocrites there is usually room for plenty more!!

Ellen

[toni*]

Toni,

My son hasn't had anyone knocking on the door; before it became a home the church had been used as a furniture store I think so i guess it was 30/40 years since anyone married there.

Nanny Jan

Hi

yes but we are researching our history from way back and we visit the churches where they were christened , married etc don't we or is that just me?

[Lynn H]

Hi Toni, I am one of the one's that love to go to the old churches, thats why i started this thread. I use the internet to find the info that i need and then i go and visit the church to photograph it. It just brings my research closer to me. There's nothing nicer than acctually seeing the documents you have found. Lynn H.

[toni*]

glad i'm not alone then!

they are having a beetle drive at my local church next weekend i think, any funds raised go to the church, i would like to go but i don't know what a beetle drive is!

my family aunts uncles nan etc still go to church regulalry but after sunday school i stopped going, caught up in the whirlwind of work kids sleep etc. my children don't go to sunday school but they have asked to a couple of times but they play football on a sunday morning and also go swimming so its a choice betweent them and the church the sports win all the time.

[Windsor87]

If you think the people who go to church are hypocrites there is usually room for plenty more!!

Ellen

I speak soley of the Church I used to attend. I feel less of a hypocrite for becoming 'enlightened'.

[Elizabeth Revel]

Toni,

If you google "beetle drive" you will learn that it is a very basic game to entertain people easily for an evening, no complicated rules or elaborate equipment are required.

When I was a child the PTA used to have beetle drives for parents, ( mostly the mothers attended. ) I am not sure if it was a social outing for busy, housebound Mums or if it was a money maker but it was certainly an activity which was offered over a period of a number of years when there was little money and few facilities for entertainment.

It would be a bit of research into the past to attend one for an evening.

Beth

[Pels.]

my children don't go to sunday school but they have asked to a couple of times but they play football on a sunday morning and also go swimming so its a choice betweent them and the church the sports win all the time.

I can fully understand why toni - far more enjoyable than going to Sunday School and in these days, healthwise far better for them!

But .. .. we had the same problem when my son was younger, all the children were involved in other activities on a Sunday morning.

So it was decided to move Sunday School to a Wednesday - run it after school, give it a fresh approach and rename it .. .. The Wednesday Club!

It worked - same format but the place was packed with children from all denominations - who were actually quite eager to attend! 

 

[Lydart]

We used to have one of those where I lived ... it was called Monday Church ... and it had lots of children and some mums attending ... then it was moved for some reason to Sunday in the village hall ... that was it !  It wound up within 6 months.

In my experience, the people with most skill at closing churches are the 'church' themselves (by which I mean the church-goers) ... and once they've done it, and its too late, they realise what they have lost ...

Sad, sad, sad ... and with some lateral thinking, it need not be like that.