Unregistered

My experience with my family growing up Catholic included family traditions, going to the quickest Sunday mass(so we could be done with going to church), and holiday gatherings full of drinking and other sinful pleasures. When I started to attend some Pentecostal church meetings, I found out that God was real and I had been trapped in man's religious traditions. As I continued to be at family outings, I saw in a deeper way what was happening. My family was not interested in anything spiritual at all. I would attend Bible studies and then I met some brothers and sisters from the local church where I lived in Connecticut. The kindness and seriousness that was expressed towards me help me to be genuine and serious in my relationship with the Lord. My family did not even want me around any longer because I would not participate in their sinful follies. My real family with eternal joys was my brothers and sisters in Christ. I often hear that those in the local churches do not take care of family. I find this statement to be so very far from the truth. All those who desire to be godly and pursue righteousness will be persecuted. The Bible says if we do not hate our mother, father wife, etc.....we cannot be His disciple. (I will leave your interpretation of that up to you, as all man has the capacity to properly understand the truth---God will help see to that too). It is not the truth that those in the local church do not value family, that is a misleading lie. I hope you can turn to your spirit and find true discernement, and experience the all-inclusive Christ.