Survey Comments

Enjoyed the survey!! Thank you!

denominationalism stinks!

Your survey underplays the sacramental aspects of church.

Let's do Christianity, not study it!

5) I identify Catholic teaching with the fullness of Christian truth and that is why I am Catholic so in a way it is most important, but I also believe that its members (as well as other Christians) comprise the Body of Christ so I do not want to say that the people are 'less important' than abstract teaching. 6) If it is my own interpretation of a teaching that is disagreed upon I will consider that I am wrong, if it is something more serious I try to discern whether I should correct them, pray for them or what, and sometimes I'm just too cowardly to do anything. 8) I don't consider myself evangelical as in aligned with the Christian Coalition, etc., but I try to evangelize in subtle or overt ways depending on the situation. 15) Poor religious education leading them to find church pointless, or just normal human selfishness, wanting to do what they want instead of being constrained by religion. (This has been me at various times not so long ago.) Bad teenagers like me get annoyed when we're not even given credit for choosing to be bad, you know! You should put a choice up there: d) they're old enough to make bad decisions and be culpable.

For the last question, I believe that teens & children are totally separate in the way they do things (including worship), so they should also have church services geared toward them without neglecting they way in which they're most comfortable worshipping God. I'm 15, and I have a totally different way of doing things than my parents do. At the church they take me to, all they use are just really slow hymns and stuff, because that's the way THEY worship. But for me, it makes me mad that they would totally ignore the preferences and comforts of a younger generation (that really wants to find truth), which is really the future of their church. And people wonder why we're losing the youth now-a-days.

The church I grew up in had a fatalistic view of the world and of God. They dwelled on Revelations and the end of the world, to the extent that I didn't see any point in going to college or having children, because the world was going to end tomorrow. They failed to teach me of God's love and mercy. I thought I had to be perfect for even God to love me. I honestly never knew that God could still love me in spite of my weaknesses, and that He only expects my best. I was given so many rules to follow that I knew I could never measure up, so I didn't even try. It caused me to believe that my salvation depended on my works, my performance. My salvation is possible only by God's grace, His unmerited love and mercy toward mankind. I don't deserve it, yet He gives it freely and abundantly and I, in turn, want to serve Him out of thankfulness. That's what we should teach our kids, not that God is dying to punish us for things He knows are impossible for us.

Read the Bible and prove to yourself how GOD wants us to live our lives. What laws to uphold. And what Holy Days God wants us to observe. (Try and find out where in the Bible God commands us to observe Christs birth) (hint...it's not in there)

Some of your questions need all three answers as being correct, many things are equal, God shows equality of them through his word, your questions only allowing you to give one answer will give you false data.There are many questions that don't have the right answer, therefore I couldn't answer them.

Your survey is interesting, but very slanted for your own views. My Reformed beliefs are Calvanistic, and could not be shown in most of the questions. It would be interesting to see a more openly slated survey for better answers from you respondents.

#20 I assumed by "obligation" you meant is in need of one. #24 not as opposed to. Need both.

Some of your questions were rather strange. You didn't offer a wide enough range of answers on the questions not answered.

Some of these questions were hard to answer because I don't feel the choices were accurately reflective of my belief. I am not uncomfortable talking about any one of the Trinity. But I went ahead and answered as best I could. God bless you!

No comments really ~...I have a web page as well and it deals with a lot of my weaknesses that I had to endure most of my life, I am trying to have FAITH in myself, but that has been very difficult to do with being cut down so many times.. I AM TRYING tho....I wish you the best...thank you.