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Originally Posted by NeverBeenLoved
I've lost a bunch of people that I considered to be good caring friends recently, since I have made the decision to stop attending my church. It is like people have disappeared into thin air or I get the cold shoulder now. I just don't buy their crap anymore and don't feel that should have to live up to anyone's standards but my own. But it sucks, it hurts because they were supposed to friends, but I guess the friendship didn't stretch beyond the church walls. Well, I am sorry that isn't the Jesus I know, I know He loves me whether I go to church or not and always will.
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Not that I feel like I am helping the situation here, but sometimes it helps to know someone understands....
14 years ago I left a church I had been in since I was 9 years old. I was quite involved socially and musically. One morning when I was 23 I hosted a bible study at my apartment for the young mums with babies. (I had a 3 year old at the time) I had known these girls since I was a child. When they left my home I cried and cried.
I tried to tell them what was going on in my life and I was alone and sad and not one of them called me or visited me. I prayed desperately to God to send someone or I might fall away. No one came. I stopped going to church and still, nothing. I found I was more accepted by my "secular" friends and went and joined them instead.
11 years later I tried to contact two of my good "church friends" for a catch up coffee. They said they would love to but are really busy at the moment. I said that's fine, just let me know when. They never contacted me back. That was 3 years ago.
Im sorry, I know this doesn't help. But I simply don't understand it either. It hurts and just doesn't make sense to me.
