My Journey To A Non-Denominational Church

I was raised to be catholic which as you may know is a fairly strict, and structured type of mass. They do things exactly the same way each Sunday you go for mass, the only thing that usually differs is the subject of which the mass has been planned around. That is why I chose to go to a non denominational church for my church visit reflection. This is because these two are extremely different, and a couple of my friends on the soccer team go there for church every Sunday. The church I went to was called Victory Church, as soon as I walked in I was greeted with food and coffee and lots of people gathering around for morning chit chat before the worship had started. When I walked into where the mass was held I was extremely confused. I saw a

At Victory there was no alter, marble or stain glass windows it just looked like an auditorium it made it feel like you were not at church. My teammates love this church because you get to express yourself to the Lord while you are singing up to him, I thought it was very interesting how casual it was there, not many people were dressed up. The pastor was wearing kakis which surprised me because at my church the priests are always wearing white robes. During the ceremony it was hard to follow what he was saying because the pastor went off into tangents about the sections of the bible he was reading, within my church there really isn’t a whole lot that is read from the bible, and honestly I have not been to my church at home since last Easter because of being at school. When I was at Victory church there was not Eucharist like there is at my catholic church. We talked about this within class about how each church celebrated Jesus’s body differently, some do not use it, others use it each mass, and it differs for each church about who takes the Eucharist and who can

I like the structured way of a church, and I like feeling like I am actually in church when I go. Although I do not attend church often, when I do go I want to feel like I am there for a reason and going and sitting in an auditorium does not seem like I am there to celebrate Jesus. Church was something that I was forced to do as a kid, as I’ve grown over the years and especially throughout college I find myself having a better experience in church because of knowing more about the bible. A lot of times when I was in church as a little girl even up through high school I did not really comprehend when was going on in church and what was being talked about. This is because I had little to no knowledge about the bible, knowing the different parts of the bible will help you understand what happens in church and what the different stories they are talking about mean. I think it is important to continue to grow in a church mindset, but I also don’t want to be pressured into learning more when I am not ready