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Quote by: Netopalis  I'll yield that drinking to excess is probably a sin, I should have used the phrase alcohol use instead. However, there are other commonly accepted things which aren't necessarily sins. I've seen people kicked out of church because they didn't dress appropriately, I've seen people claim that reading a book that has a possible anti-Christian bias is a sin, others claiming that it's a sin to miss a single church service. I guess that what I am trying to say is that we're just making it harder on ourselves while gaining nothing... |
Now these things I would agree with you on to an extent. Visitors I can understand, but if you are a member of the church, you should live up to a higher standard than the unsaved around you. Coming to church in clothes that do everything except put up neon signs saying, "I want sex" makes any person in church say to me that they think a Christian life is a mere trifle.
The rest of it I do sometimes in certain circumstances. I had to stay home to take care of my grandmum who has ovarian cancer today, but I doubt anyone in the church would say I was skipping for no reason. I can have church with any group of people willing to worship God, regardless of where I am.
As for books, I read anti-Christian literature a lot and then find Bible verses that refute it and also scientific or historical facts that refute it. I didn't even need to read the da Vinci code because of all the history channel and Discovery Channel specials that refuted it. I had every detail picked apart in those and have seen it before in previous books.