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Pew: Half of Americans Who Attend Religious Services Go to More than One Place

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Honestly, there is the "clubiness" in some churches, but that isn't what going to church is about. It's about a fellowship with other believers and worshipping God. You can not have a close fellowship if you are constantly going to several different churches each Sunday.

Dryfire of IL 9:42PM December 16, 2009

doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
In my experience, most church goers attend not for the spiritual experience, but for the 'clubiness,' as Muser of NM points out.

Will of MO 6:07PM December 15, 2009

Seek God not to prove your own concept of God but to prove whether or not God really exist and in what form. If anyone seeks to know the truth for unselfish reasons, and follows the evidence with an open and honest hart, God will let you experience a spiritual birth. Call it what you will, but you will be a different person

P.G. Long of MO 5:52PM December 15, 2009

many Christians would be better off if they went to church about 50 Sundays a year----in 50 different places. Their real faith would be far stronger than with the experience of bogging down in the "clubiness" of something they "join". Anybody who ever served on a church "board" probably knows this in spades.

Muser of NM 5:03PM December 15, 2009

"religious or mystical experience," more than twice as many who said so in a 1962 Gallup survey. "
Isn't that how many people are now on psych drugs?

Deb of CA 2:10PM December 15, 2009

You believe that God is nothing more than what you perceive Him to be - then it makes no matter if you attend services or where you go. You have made yourself God - a mere reflection of your perceptions and feelings.
Now, you may find that perspective comfy, warm and fuzzy, but it may not work out so well in the long run.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 5:53PM December 14, 2009