So, lately there's been a buzz about Christians who don't attend church or claim adherance to a particular denomination. Such believers are reffered to as 'unaffiliated'.
I am one such Christian.
For personal reasons I don't attend church - and I won't list them because it would be 3 or 4 paragraphs of ranting that would do nothing more than bash the churches I've attended and loved in the past, and that just wouldn't be fair since they have all shaped the way I relate to the Lord and for that they are to be greatly thanked.
Yet being called 'unafilliated' seems very clinical and stark - as though I have detached myself from and renounced every practice and tradition I've ever learned under the heading 'Christian' or 'Church'.
Not so. I have a unique and personal way of relating to my Lord, Jesus Christ - and I have every little church I've ever attended to thank for their part in the tapestry that is now my faith.
so, I do not call myself 'unaffiated' I call myself a free believer.
c.anna
