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[quote=Anonymous]I have the struggle of the original poster also.  Once I became more educated and open, church community got hard.  As Christians, you want to make your closest friends other christians or people with like-minded beliefs.  Church people are often very shallow and narrow-minded.  I have to give up the desire for a community and start just looking around and accepting the community God was making for me in daily life.  I found a church I don’t love but I like the pastor - and just accept that I probably won’t be best friends with anyone.  I have to trust God to bring my community to me, and I work to be the most authentic expression of myself so I attract the right people.  It’s hard and not at all like my church as a kid growing up, where all community things centered around church.  But I do talk to a lot wider range of people and I have had deeper and better opportunities to share my faith than I ever had with a feel-good church community.  It’s gritty but it’s real.[/quote]

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