I really have personal problems with joining a youth group.
A few years back, I was in the core group for our church's first youth group in years. In short, it didn't work. We tried again the year after that, but we didn't get anywhere at all. So I had kinda given up on the idea, and decided it was best for me to express my faith in other ways.
Now the youth group is taking over our church, but I just don't belong there. "Rocking for God" makes me unbelievably uncomfortable, and everyone seems somehow weirdly out there with their faith. I don't do that, and I don't know if I ever will. I've never been "taken over by the spirit", I've never felt anything really profound in church at all, to tell you the truth.
All I really know if that I believe some -- but definitely not all -- of what I'm supposed to in the Catholic faith. I love singing in the choir because I feel it's how I should thank God for my gift, but I don't feel moved to much other than that. I'm especially turned off of those retreats you go on to find God or whatever. I just WOULD not fit in, and I don't even think I'd really want to. What bugs me the most though, is that I have a really hard time saying no to these people. It's becoming a real problem.
What bugs me the most though -- and this is very un-Christian of me -- are the people who grew up hating church and never going, who all of a sudden wear crosses and carry around bibles and act as if they know everything there is to know about being a Catholic. (You know one of these people... she's in the only class we have together, not our free.) Yeah, I'm rotten. I guess I've always had a problem with people "stealing" things from me in that way.
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on 2005-10-10 03:02 pm (UTC)A few years back, I was in the core group for our church's first youth group in years. In short, it didn't work. We tried again the year after that, but we didn't get anywhere at all. So I had kinda given up on the idea, and decided it was best for me to express my faith in other ways.
Now the youth group is taking over our church, but I just don't belong there. "Rocking for God" makes me unbelievably uncomfortable, and everyone seems somehow weirdly out there with their faith. I don't do that, and I don't know if I ever will. I've never been "taken over by the spirit", I've never felt anything really profound in church at all, to tell you the truth.
All I really know if that I believe some -- but definitely not all -- of what I'm supposed to in the Catholic faith. I love singing in the choir because I feel it's how I should thank God for my gift, but I don't feel moved to much other than that. I'm especially turned off of those retreats you go on to find God or whatever. I just WOULD not fit in, and I don't even think I'd really want to. What bugs me the most though, is that I have a really hard time saying no to these people. It's becoming a real problem.
What bugs me the most though -- and this is very un-Christian of me -- are the people who grew up hating church and never going, who all of a sudden wear crosses and carry around bibles and act as if they know everything there is to know about being a Catholic. (You know one of these people... she's in the only class we have together, not our free.) Yeah, I'm rotten. I guess I've always had a problem with people "stealing" things from me in that way.
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