Convincing our church we want to stay at arm's length

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Switch to the Catholic Church. I went to one for years and no one wanted anything but obedience and money. I was surprised when I went to the Episcopal Church at the number of ways I was almost immediately invited to get involved, volunteer, lead, etc.

I was a Lutheran who moved to a Catholic Church. It's a lot better. I thought the Lutherans had a lot of make work stuff that didn't matter that much. One example is making sandwiches for a homeless shelter. That's fine, but I think writing a check to the shelter (which had its own kitchen where meals were prepared everyday!) or just buying premade wrapped sandwiches from a grocery store is much more useful than spending a Sunday afternoon making stale white bread sandwiches.

So relatable. I went the other way. Raised Catholic, now Lutheran. Everyone is so NICE, but the constant pressure to join things kind of gets to me. Sometimes I kind of miss just sitting there peacefully and anonymously!