QUOTE(Dharma123 @ Jan 23 2014, 04:30 PM)
wrong...don't be brainwashed.
Yes priority is god but if you don't feel belonged to a church, you will definitely burn out.
Fellowship is very important. Of course no church is perfect but this tmn billion one is a piece of shiit. If there was a riot and people burn it down, i wouldn't feel sorry for it. In fact i will cheer it.
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Top most priority is still God. To stay or leave a church, depends on God's will, ie what God wants us to you. God want us to stay, stay, God say leave, then leave. Sometimes God tells us to do difficult stuff but from there His grace, strength & wisdom is more for us to do the task/mission/work.
I'm sure you have heard or read of God asking Pastors to take over problematic churches. Something like nobody want to take the big task but God telling them, go do, I your God am with you. They obeyed God & did. This is example from Msia ya.
You might say this is full time, they called to minister, etc. But working outside the church also(marketplace), we are supposed to seek God as to career & major decisions. Now with this Allah thing going on, the most basic question is when time come, will we make a stand or get scared & dont dare go church?
Fellowship, the socializing thing, depends on personality. I find it very tiring, read book or nowadays computer/smartphone better, no people bising2 give more stress. If leader lagilah.
In Msia, many of us are 1st generation CHristians. We bring with us the 'old self' from previous religion. Churches also attract a lot of troubled people looking for love, joy peace,etc. End up, we see these weird characters around.
Some people very sensitive one, sikit2 butthurtt.
Anyway, the flawed nature of humans is why our focus should be on God, humans often times fail us.