So after years of being a “lukewarm Christian” at best I finally started regularly going to a baptist church last spring, right before they stopped making people wear masks indoors. I was longing for spiritual fullness so much that I ignored the fact that they were almost all mask and government law lovers.
Shortly after joining the church the mask mandate was lifted and despite not being a fan of most of their worship music, and despite teaching out of the ESV which I have mixed feelings about, I was enjoying it.
A month ago we returned to mask-dom and couldn’t help but going back to feeling like an outsider, hating every moment of it. I “want” to go back but I feel differently about 90% of the members now (that they are suckers) and having grown quite a bit feel like I don’t even want to go anymore. What do you fellow Christians think? I almost feel like I’d only be going at this point so I don’t “look” like a backpedaler, and don’t want to offend the very good Pastors there. not into the worship music, the Bible study lessons I can get elsewhere, and im not big on socializing…
What would/did you do? Stick with it? Find a new church? Just continue to worship on my own?
Be the catalyst for change. If you don't like how things are going, join whatever group is in charge of these decisions and guide them.
Don't strong arm things, and if they refuse to hear you then you know it is time to leave.
If everyone left their church for every slight grievance then everyone would belong to their own church.
If everyone who had balls enough to confront the Catholic Church stayed and deposed the despots instead of go off and say "I can do it better!" then it wouldn't be the cesspool of pedophile bankers that it is today.
It always reminds me of this clip when I hear people are willing to leave something without getting their hands dirty to fix it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-94qrgxH35M