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  after 6 years, maybe looking for a new church/religion..

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  any suggestions, just thinking that my spiritual person is dying and need to feed her:).

  i am terrified of churches, etc, due to my jw time,,,so any input would be well received from my friends here.

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  scalzo

  Wendy: Are you still following this thread? I sympathize with your situation (sounds pretty familiar). If your spiritual person is dying it's because, unfortunately, most JW's are very fleshly and mechanistic in their thinking, which automatically raises a barrier to the Spirit. That's not to say that many churches don't fall into their own traps. It seems like the pendulum is always to one side or the other, and we're all riding it. Either you veer off towards a dry, mechanical, quid-pro-quo religious mindset or you're off into touchy-feely nothing-matters-ness. (How do you like my word inventions?) My mistake for years was operating based on a relationship with a group. Whether you think the group is right or wrong is irrelevent. If your "spiritual" relationship is *primarily* with the group, then God is always going to be secondary. IMHO, God must be primary in your life if you really want to be his servant (remember a lot of "religious" people don't really want to serve God, they just want to be religious). This doesn't go into specifics, and I definitely do NOT think that I have it all worked out, because I wrestle still with what I call "the church thing." (BTW, regarding the Belief-O-Matic link in the first reply, very clever, but it leaves out a lot of stuff that is very major to JW's or ex-JW's, the primary one being whether the GB et al are the "faithful and discreet slave" of MT 24:45.) Ross