Are you a Christian who has no church?

Then this blog is just for you.

I’m an ordained Christian minister without a church to call my home. I know it sounds crazy and un-Christian but I’m so fed up with the way churches are in my area that I refuse to attend any of them. I would like to go to a particular denomination but I live in a country area and there are not any of that denomination near enough to make it reasonable to go. I’ve always felt that if you are going to attend a church it should be more than just the occasional visit on a Sunday but that seems to be all that is open to me.

Shouldn’t a minister put up with anything? Perhaps you would be right in asking that. I’m not perfect and do make mistakes but surely going to church shouldn’t just leave you feeling angry? Is it really church if you feel closer to God when you are out of it than when you are in it?

Statistically I’m not alone. People have been leaving the church for years because they have just got fed up with the nonsense they experience when they are part of a church. It’s not that they give up on God but just that someone the church has let them down.

I’ve spent many a day with people who have been hurt by insensitive Christians in the past. I’ve talked with people who found church so boring that I just couldn’t take it any more.

I don’t myself believe that church should be the most entertaining of places to be. Reading a book is just not as exciting as watching a film but it doesn’t mean the book is boring – the experience is just different (don’t get fixated on my analogy I know some will think a book is more exciting than a film). The point is that the church is not just not exciting its often downright boring! When I read of how thousands came to hear Jesus speak and how society is reaching out for all things spiritual I have to ask why is it that most churches are empty?

You may be someone who finds church boring, or someone who has been hurt by Christians, or you may have other reasons why you don’t go to church.

I hope that you will feel able to bookmark this blog and perhaps start to participate it in.

I don’t want it to degenerate in to a rant at the church – there are plenty of other blogs doing that. This is not the place for Atheists to get off on bashing Christians – I will remove comments that are like that so don’t bother. I want this to be a place where Christians who have no church can receive some Christian ministry.

Thanks for reading.

Chris