Can’t I believe without going to church?
You can trust Jesus anywhere. But the Bible never imagines Christians living alone. When people trusted Jesus, they joined a community that learned, prayed, ate and served together.
The church is called the body of Christ. A hand on its own can’t do much. We need each other: to be encouraged, challenged, cared for and to grow.
If church has hurt you in the past, that’s real. Take it slowly. You’re welcome at Clearspring however tentatively you come.
From the Bible
24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24–25
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
1 Corinthians 12:27