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Originally Posted by BoostedBB6
Regardless of your religious choices, a church can teach many great values and compassion (going to depend highly on the church and religion practiced there). From my experience, even if you choose not to follow that religion many of the lessons and views can and should be applied to aspects of your life.
There is no harm in going in to check things out and see whats up for yourself. You will find most people there are very welcoming.
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This right here.
The experience will vary WIDELY from one church to the next. Growing up, my grandmother went to a... well, I'm not even sure what denomination they were, it was the Central Assembly at Kingsway and Imperial. We went there quite often, it was always fun, the people were always friendly... I remember some interesting guest speakers, and not a lot of fire-and-brimstone.
When we moved up north, we went to a non-denominational church that I always really liked as well. Other friends attended various others in town, of assorted denominations. I visited a couple, none really clicked with me the same as CCLF. Maybe it was partly familiarity, maybe part was the fact that they weren't so strict on the "rules of religion" but were much more into the spirit of it (pardon the pun).
I've been to relatives' churches in other parts of BC and Oregon as well... most of those were Apostolic Faith, if memory serves. Very much about the rules. Really wasn't my thing. Not that I was against following the rules per se, but so many of them just didn't make sense or seemed rather arbitrary.
Anyway, point is, if you try one and don't like it, maybe try another... you may find a place where you really feel welcomed and at home. I know there were kids from school who would come to our youth group functions now and then, because it was a lot of fun and people weren't beating them over the head with a bible.