The most common cause cited for irregular church attendance is not lack of faith in God, it is the churches' inability to meet our individual needs.
So, while we once went to church in order to serve and praise God, we are now more inclined to assess the value of church attendance based on the service it provides us.
--Ray Pennings of Cardus
Ray's comments make me wonder about how our new attitude fits in with the words of 1 Peter 2.9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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