ok heres a situation for you?

Question

i started to go to church as a young child with my siblings we would walk to church and instead of going upstairs and wait to be dismissed to sunday school classes we would always go straight downstairs to the classrooms and sit in the dark in complete silence (as not to disturb any one) waiting for the class to begin and we did this for years and years and no one ever had a problem with it then one day one of the older women of the church decided to send her granddaughter down to tell us to come upstairs and i told her no so the granddaughter came back down and said that her grandmother said that if we did not want to come upstairs not to come back so i stayed for the rest of the sunday school class and never looked back that was the last time i ever set foot in that church or any church except for weddings ect it was also when i decided that i didnt have a religion cause if there was a god he wouldnt have let that happen so now i dont have a religion (hold on not done)

(please dont lecture) and when my daughter was born she was not christened or baptised or any thing like that i decided that religion is her choice and that she could make up her own mind when she was old enough and she has been goin to church for about 2 years now (shes 10) and i go to see her programs and what not from time to time and i support what ever she decides to believe any way my question is what do you think bout this situation do you think the woman had a right to do that and shouldnt she have done it in person and not through her grand daughter and did she have the right to tell any one not to come back to church this is the biggest reason i do believe in church and religion most of the people i have met that are firm believers and church goers are hipocrits (sp?)any way i was just wondering you guys opinion on all this and how you would have handled it

now im done

Answer 1

I've been to different churches myself and I understand your question.... Why you were treated the way you were.... I don't understand it because church is the one place we are supposed to experience love, patience and so on. It does not seem like the pastor of the church kept tabs on his congregation and whats going on.

Nobody has the right to tell anyone not to come to church anymore except the pastor and then the pastor has to go before God to verify his action and get approval from God. And in your case that woman was totally wrong and if you really were a child when she told you not to return to church....then she will answer for that when she go before God, because Jesus warns all those who prohibits children from going to God. And that's the next thing.... you are doing well by allowing your child to attend church as she wishes.

Answer 2

Okay here is my take. No. She shouldn't have done that. I am a youth leader for Highschool guys at my church. I don't care when somebody comes to the youth group I don't care if they come to the service or even if they come at the very end of us meeting. I try to show love and hospitallity to everyone even the ones who don't come very often. I think if she wanted to she could have came down and asked if you wanted to join them in the service. I think an invite would have been nice, but no I wouldn't have ever told somebody who was coming to a class to learn about God to leave. That is just not how you show the love of God. I pray that you won't hold that against God. We are all short of what Jesus is. None of us are perfect and some of us are rude, but that doesn't mean you should put us all in her boat I wouldn't do it to ya. Its worth checking out your daughters chruch I mean if you don't like you can always just quit going right?

Answer 3

What an odd sunday school situation. I went to sunday school church as a kid and it was tons of fun and lots of activities learning the Bible and being active in church. Then I became a teacher of sunday school myself and made it interesting for them to attend sunday school but what they most love to do is learn new songs and perform in front of the congregation. That experiences doesn't tell though whether God exist or do not but it surely was very odd.

I could have stop coming to church by then and look for another church if that was my experiences.

Answer 4

First of all, I don't consider believing in God, and Jesus, and that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, a religion. I just call it believing. If you can find the real truth, it will set you free. Please don't throw your life or your daughter's away. Maybe you just need to find that church that will let you know the truth. Call me crazy, but it can be truly amazing.

Answer 5

Find Gods true church first. But if you let little thing like that stop you then you don't have any back bone.
So you also need to grow up.

Answer 6

Well.....if you sat in the classroom while the service was going on you were avoiding the service, correct? If you've spent your whole life purposely not going to services...even when you are in a church, I would say that that religion is not for you.

Answer 7

God doesn't stop people from making foolish decisions. I feel sorry for your situation, and hope that you can be happy without the church, or are willing to try to reenter.

Answer 8

It's hard to read all of that with no punctuation but, I think you're doing the right thing by letting your daughter believe what she wants to believe.

Answer 9

Too Bad for you.
I'll try to check back to see if you have a point.

Answer 10

hell is waiting for u, it will be very dark and sad there.