Why go to Church???

Who needs it?  Why waste our time with it?  What is the value of it?  Why Church?   Fewer and fewer people are “going to church” these days.  What are we saying about church with our feet ? In one of the most difficult studies to swallow, only17.7% of Americans go to church on a regular basis, according to Olson¹.  People are leaving the church very early in life and not returning.  According to the Baptist Press, 88% of the people raised in evangelical homes are leaving the church at age 18 and not returning.  The future doesn’t look that promising for the established church either.  Barna is predicting that by 2025,  of those who do participate in some sort of church life, fewer than 35% of them go to a church building for religious “goods and services.”²

I am in a season of life when I am going through an honest introspection and biblcial interpretation (must do both for balance) of what, why, how, and where is a church?  I want you to do some honest reflection and tell me “Why go to Church?”  Click on the comments button and tell the world.

1. David Olson, The American Church in Crisis, 28 [↩]
2. George Barna. Revolution, 49 [↩]