Unchurched Survey 3

For my unchurched survey number 3, I interviewed a friend in work. I thought that he would give some well thought out answers to the questions and some pretty good insight, being kind of an older guy and been around longer. But I was surprised that when He gave the survey back to me, it was filled out with all one sentence answers and a lot of them seemed very vague. Like when the question was asked why don’t you think many people go to church he replied, because it’s not a whole lot of fun. And when asked if you were look for a church to attend what would you like for, he responded “ a good time.” Answers like these always make me seem like the don’t really have much interest about church or things of God at all. But I began to think maybe this man can be very curious to spiritual things, but just does not see the church as a place to provide that. Possibly he was raised and has had assumptions that church was just a place to go to, just to get preached at and is very boring. Or possibly that the church should be a show. I would think that someone like this may have had a bad experience or experiences with church before. Maybe the church has let him down on things that are spiritual and helping people and had a become a place just to tell people what to do and perhaps the church wasn’t a very fun place to people because it was very legalistic and all. I sometimes struggle with the whole idea that church should be fun sometimes, but I guess there should be some kind of aspect involved with it though. The church should be a place where people are happy and are able to show the love of Christ. But at the same time there are churches with people who have a higher view of God and like to meditate on God and enjoy Him that way. I don’t know where you draw the line with church being fun, how much fun it should be and all of that.