Plutarch's Dilemma

[_rcrocket]

Here's my dillema:

I know the Church is true. It has been witnessed to me many times, and I have been the recipient of and have witnessed many miracles.

Yet, I am inactive and don't go.

What should I do?

P

[_Yoda]

Here's my dillema:

I know the Church is true. It has been witnessed to me many times, and I have been the recipient of and have witnessed many miracles.

Yet, I am inactive and don't go.

What should I do?

P

Before I could answer that question, I would need to know why you have chosen not to go.

[_Mercury]

Here's my dillema:

I know the Church is true. It has been witnessed to me many times, and I have been the recipient of and have witnessed many miracles.

Yet, I am inactive and don't go.

What should I do?

P

You answered the question in the first part of the post.

Here is what you do:

Let go of emotion as your source for verification of fact first. This will solve the problem of inactivity as attendance would then become a moot point.

[_Dr. Shades]

I know the Church is true. It has been witnessed to me many times, and I have been the recipient of and have witnessed many miracles.

Yet, I am inactive and don't go.

What should I do?

Don't do anything. Is there anything ever said in church anymore that you don't already know?

[_Sam Harris]

I'd have to know why you don't go too, to answer your question.

If it is a cultural issue, or an issue of a particular doctrine the LDS church espouses, how about one of the fringe groups? Except for the FLDS...they're weird.

[_Ray A]

Yet, I am inactive and don't go.

What should I do?

P

I'd ask the same question as Liz, why don't you go? Not in an accusatory way, but, deep down, there is a reason you don't go. Only you know why.

[_Runtu]

I know the Church is true. It has been witnessed to me many times, and I have been the recipient of and have witnessed many miracles.

Yet, I am inactive and don't go.

What should I do?

Do what seems right to you. Isn't that the answer to just about all of life's questions? If you think it's right to go to church, go to church. That you don't go might suggest that you don't feel it's right. But what do I know? I'm just a bitter apostate. It's ironic that I attend LDS services more often than some of the defenders I've run across.

[_beastie]

I admit this is a phenomenon I never really understood. Some of my exhusband's relatives believed the church was true and yet not only were inactive, but also didn't live according to the standards. Every now and then they'd go through a bout of activity only to slack off again. Yet they would always fervently insist they knew the church was true.

I do not understand. If you truly believe the church is true, and hence believe that participation and temple worthiness are crucial to your situation in the next life, why don't you go? Maybe it's like smoking, a bad habit you know you should quit or don't? Or is that the the social circumstances of being an active LDS are alienating to you? My boyfriend was an inactive believer for many years before completely losing faith in the LDS church because, after his painful divorce, he just couldn't stand the social structure of the church. It is difficult to be single in the LDS church past the age of 25 or so.

I guess the first thing to do it to figure out why you don't go. If I were a believer who hated church meetings and the church social structure, I would at least attend sacrament the minimum number of times a month so I could be worthy for a temple recommend.

I'm not trying to make you feel worse about your situation, but I really don't understand why someone who really believes wouldn't participate in the very activities he/she believes are required to be reunited with your Heavenly Parents, at the very least.

[_rcrocket]

I don't go because I keep wanting to correct the grammar of the speakers.

[_Gazelam]

Quote: "I don't go because I keep wanting to correct the grammar of the speakers."

I told my wife this and she cracked up. very funny.

The problem is that you need to do more to enhance the Holy Ghost. Along with not attending church, what else are you allowing to go by the wayside? How often are you saying your prayers? How often do you study the scriptures?

I was the same way for a good while. I knew the church was true, but didn't go because I was lazy. Come sunday I enjoyed staying home and enjoying a day off work.

The key is putting what you know is true to the test, and watching the Holy Ghost grow again withen you, and feeling the comforter return. Work on the basics. Faith is there, you just need minor repentence (turning back to God), working on the gift of the Holy Ghost you already have, keeping your baptismal covenants.

Return to the things you know are right, and you'll feel the inward change.

Gaz