I'll take faith with no commitment and hold the church

All of the time, from so many types of people, including myself in the past, I hear people say " why do I need to go to church? I can worship from home or in my own way."

Sure you can. But do you? I can't speak for everyone, because I don't know your heart, but as for me, I didn't worship alone. When I used that excuse it was because I was living in sin and wanted it my way. " I'll take faith with no commitment and hold the church." I believed in God and the death of Christ for my sins but I sure didn't want to feel guilty for living worldly as a part-time lower case Christian. I read the Bible, talked to God, called myself a christian and lived like a sinner.

You live like that because you still desire, even worship, the world more than God. Your desires are not aligned with His word and you know it. Going to church to worship and fellowship brings you up close and personal to your guilt and shame. It is better, in your feeble mind, if you do it your way.

You can't stay where you are and be a follower of Christ. To be a follower means that you have to leave where you are AND FOLLOW.

The reality is, I KNOW that when I don't get the filling of my spirit through worship and fellowship, my faith begins to shrivel. I imagine my soul is a vessel that can blossom like a flower when it is given living water of the Word and surrounded by people with His light. But when the world pulls me away and I miss His Word and that love and light, my soul becomes shriveled and dark. 

This world shrivels your soul. Your sins eat away at your soul like weeds in a garden. It robs you of the light and His living water. There is no peace in sin, just as there is no light in worldliness.

By the way, do you know where I got the inspiration for this? ...guess