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Does the Bloggernaccle make Church boring?<\/p>\n

I get very little out of church nowadays. Certainly I feel spiritually refreshed when I take the sacrament, but that takes all of 10-15 minutes. Certainly, I hear a new insight shared in class every few months or so, but it doesn?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2t happen every week.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I feel like, what?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s the point? Why attend gospel doctrine class when all that?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s going to be said is the same thing that was said four years ago? Why attend elders quorum when all that?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s going to be done is the ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00ecinstructor?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u00ac\u00f9 will read from the book and ask the obligatory questions at the end of the chapter? I can go home early and get more from personal study.<\/p>\n

At least when I was teaching the deacons each Sunday until last august, I felt like coming to Church had more purpose than taking the Sacrament. The responsibilities I have now as ward clerk certainly are not Sunday specific (except for meeting attendance).<\/p>\n

Some might say that there?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s more to Church than learning. True. Supposedly, we are supposed to find fellowship with the saints. I must be missing something, because that fellowship jut doesn?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2t seem to be there. Well, it is sort of.<\/p>\n

All the young married couples are friends because they attended the YSA wards together. All the older people?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00f9the doctors, lawyers, accountants, business owners?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00f9are friends, but only because they are neighbours in upscale Tudor Estates and Park Royal. Most everyone else is a multi-generation Mormon with roots back to Utah and New England. We certainly do not fit into any of the groups here in this ward, let alone in the city.<\/p>\n

That?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s not to say we haven?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2t tried. We have had numerous couples and families over to our house to visit, have supper and\/or to play games. Only one couple has reciprocated that gesture. Our home teachers hardly even come visit us; November was the last month.<\/p>\n

There is no one like us here; no one with whom we feel a kinship; no one whom we can call our friends.<\/p>\n

So, fellowship is out of the question. Which brings me back to my original question: does the Bloggernaccle make Church boring?<\/p>\n

Has my exposure to thought-provoking dialogue spoiled me? Has my desire to answer deeper gospel questions warped my expectations of Church? Do I need something more than fluffy experiences and cookie cutter testimonies? Can I find fulfillment in repetitive Correlation materials presented without uniqueness?<\/p>\n

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