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I just think that if a church pulls away from the core of religion which is worship; then it kills the ideas it stands behind.
Yes, but sometimes no.

The "church" is made up of lots of members and lots of different people. Just because one person ticks you off doesn't mean the WHOLE church is bad.

What really makes "churches" bad per se is when they focus on the wrong thing. I've seen churches that would rather scream and holler about believe now or go to straight to Hell than to speak to it's parishoners like a friend would. The core of the message may be technically right, but the delivery is all wrong. Follow? The same about the money. Churches need money for everything from day to day operations to missionary works to charity work. They get that money from it's members. Everybody should know that. No problem with supporting the church and it's missions. The problem comes in when either there is a miss appropriation of that money, ie. pocketing it or misspending, or when all you ever hear during a service revolves around "gimme, gimme, gimme".

My church is a semi-big church. They have big expenditures. I give wholeheartedly every week what I can afford to give. No regrets. When there are special needs, I give more to those special needs. When I feel compelled to, I give some more. My giving is my own doing. Yes, the church believes in tithing, but they're not going to excommunicate you if you don't. I would be upset if I found out that someone was stealing that money instead of using it for good. Big churches usually have an ellaborate system of checks and balances that makes it difficult to simply palm money. Too many eyes watching over the soup makes it difficult to blow your nose in it.....



I think if a church has to have casual dress service to attrack teens then its nothing but a way to generate #'s and $$$. God doen't care what you look like, but this is a fairly new trend that has started in probably the past 10 years... i remember when i was a kid the term "sunday best" you don't see that as often now. its funny you'll see people dress up for court but for church
The church is not the parent to these teens. What do you suppose they do? Stop the service or activity and kick that teen out for wearing jeans???? There is nothing they can do besides lead by example. If the teens don't want to follow, they don't. Again, that would be like chastizing someone into not coming to church because they're too ugly. I agree with you to an extent because I don't dress like a bum when I go to church, but I also don't wear a shirt and tie either.

God loves you no matter what you wear.