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Originally Posted by Finding Freedom
Over and over again I have been told my life is going to go downhill if I leave the fellowship. Over the past several weeks, I have quietly told people I am leaving and have been repeatedly told that I am leaving God's Will and Satan is attacking me and I will no longer know truth, etc. I have been asked if my lifestyle is changing or whether I was ever really a believer.
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I think in part the local churches has artain tempo to keep brothers and sisters engaged in the ministry through various meetings and informal gatherings. There isn't much time to have much of a social life beyond the local church fellowship.
Having been familiar with the attitude towards Christians outside the local churches, the concept exists Christians are shallow; lacking any spiritual depth. That if you leave the local churches, you are going to fall prey to the vices of the world and become a Sunday morning only Christian. If there is no Christian fellowship apart from distinctions of ministries, there's no awareness what Christians in various assemblies are doing or where their spiritual health is at.
Churches I have met with each encourage daily reading in the Bible and similar to the Holy Word for Morning Revival, print cards for daily eading each week. Similar to the local churches, encourage getting involved with a home meeting.
If you have been ingrained with the local ground concept, that may become an obstacle in being knit with fellow Christians in your local community.