Numero 3

Well here it is, the third post in my list-o-things I wanna talk about. In case you haven't been around for the past month or so, I started talking about the various things most of us already think about this here Christian life. (For those of you who have poked in here and read my previous posts already, you can skip the next section.)

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I've been talking about things like how "quiet times" are a torturous mental chore, going to church is plain snore-inducing; serving is uncomfortable and embarrassing; and how the only good thing about heaven it seems is that you aren't in hell. Now those are all some pretty bold things to say, but we all think them every now and again (and perhaps more often for some of us.) so I figured it was high time to drag them out of the closet and sit them down right in the middle of the room.
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My first post in this little series was kinda a birds-eye view on everything I wanted to say, the second narrowed things down to a broad overview of church and what we think about it, and this post is going to get down to the nitty-gritty stuff revolving around church. I asked several questions in the last post, one of them being "shouldn't we want to go to church?" I'll touch on that one first, since it really kinda brings the whole thing into focus.

For some this whole concept of should we, or should we not WANT to go to church may be fairly alien. Most of us come to church because our parents make us, or because it's what good Christians are supposed to do, or maybe just because we always have. How often do we really ask ourselves "shouldn't I want to go to church?" My guess is that it's not very often, but both the question and the answer are very important.

So I ask you: what is the answer? Should we, or should we not want to go to church? Think about that for a second before reading on.

I'm guessing a lot of you answered "yes we should" to that one. I mean yea, it's kinda obvious that we SHOULD want to go to church; so you smiled, nodded, and gave the Sunday school answer (Not that there is anything wrong with that if it is the right answer.)

HOWEVER, I'm also betting that even though that is what you answered, you currently don't like going to church. Or, at the very least, aren't terribly passionate about going. Why is that? OK, so we said we SHOULD want to go... Why don't we? Can we change things to where we DO want to go? Does it just take a bunch more rules? Do we just have to keep going to church, reading our Bibles, doing "acts of service" etc. and eventually we will want to go? If it does, why don't we already want to? I mean, how long have we been going because we've had to? How much longer does it take?!?!?!

What do you think? So far I've been pretty much monologuing, but this is an important question and so I'd like to get your input. What do you think? Should we want to go to church? Why don't we? How can we want to? Is it worth it?