I'm comin' home

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

I know what you mean because I am exactly like you are and were. It wasn't long ago I found God but it didn't happen because of the church.

I grew up in the church. The church was the bedrock of our small backwoods community.

The church was the community hub. Where the needs of the community were identified and addressed.

From broken furnaces, sick or hungry residents, to shoeless children. The church provided.

We were all poor, but it was amazing how many people could be fed from a pot of stone soup.

I fell away from the church when I was older, because all the churches I found were lacking, something. 

I didn't know what it was. It took a long time for me to realize, that all those churches were heavy on the world, but lacking in the word.

I didn't find the church that I attended now. It found me. And I didn't find God. He found me.

Everyone has their own story. Mine is a doozy. Says everyone that recognizes their story.

The people are the church, and you don't need a physical structure to have a church. In fact, I would suggest that if you have a church that is putting more money in a building, than they are in the community, then you don't have a church a all.