Church goer

It used to be that a majority of Americans were church goers. Not so today. In my neighborhood, and probably yours, church goers are in the minority.

Sometimes you hear the complaint that church people are hypocrites. But that's never made sense to me. Rich Mullens put it this way:

"I never understood why going to church made you a hypocrite, because nobody goes to church because they're perfect. If you've got it all together, you don't need to go. You can go jogging with all the perfect people on Sunday morning. 

"Every time you go to church, you're confessing to yourself, to your family, to the people you pass on their way there, to the people who will greet you there, that you don't have it all together. And that you need their support. You need their direction. You need some accountability, you need some help."

As a church goer, I'm saying that I need God in my life and that I need my church family. Church is for us who know that we're far from perfect.