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I have not read all the posts on the subject of church quitting, but I have scanned a few. I have gone to church all of my life and I had to tell my Pastor this last Friday that being in church is so painful I cannot return, at least to that church. When my wife and I go to church we are worse off when we come home. I have a son who is very kind and compassionate, a wonderful boy. He has loved being with God and reading God's word his whole life. He is an amazing young man with a tremendous calling. He went away to college to study the Bible at Biola University in La Mirada in Fall of 2004. In his second year he became psychotic and we went out to get him to bring him home. Two hospitalizations later and two and a half years of a living nightmare we are just now recovering. Our son was labeled Schizophrenic and given more meds than a human should be allowed, but we had to follow this course because he's an adult and we have no rights. My church did next to nothing to help us during this whole time. The only time I talked to people is when I have called them because I take responsibility for what I need. I even talked in front of my church in September of 2007 about this ordeal. I received little feedback about my talk. Most people seemed shocked. I had friends in my church before this but now I can't say I have any. The only reason I spoke was because I told my pastor that if he didn't schedule the time I would be like one of those people when Jesus spoke who interrupted his sermon with withered hands and stuff like that. Heal me! In my pain I reached out to the church and no one reached back, which makes it like a double wound. I live a block away from my church and no one has been to my home during this time. At one point I spent about 6 months not going to church (because I had to guard the exits of my home for fear that my son would leave and kill himself) and no one noticed or said anything. No one helped us here. So, I'm not going to this church anymore. I really loathe the idea of church hopping and I don't know any other places where it's any better, so I don't believe I'll try another. There is a church in town that does a lot right and I went to a prayer meeting they sponsored last night. Someone in their church has cancer so over twenty people from that church went over and spent nearly three hours praying for this woman. I would like that. We may do cancer right in the church of God but no one seems to know what to do with mental illness. Church, get ready, because the chosen in the next generation are getting whacked by the enemy in this area. The enemy wants to take out the next generation and he has taken my son away, for now. We need to find a way to nurture these individuals and their families and also determine what the enemy is doing and how this fits into the the overall plan of God. By the way, I have never been in a better place with my God. I love Jesus so much and our intimate moments together are so nourishing. Why would I go to church to mess that all up? I do go to church in many other ways so I do not feel I am forsaking the assembling together. The church is not just a building on Sunday morning at 9:00am which includes a few songs, announcements, offering, and a somewhat relevant sermon. I'd rather be alone with the Spirit that he may speak truth and relevance to my heart, and this I do. I have mutually nourishing moments with those who understand, those who know Truth.
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