> Seeking a congregation without seeking Him first is a act of futility... I also see the problem where people become "spiritual" without seeing the need to fi

> Seeking a congregation without seeking Him first is a act of futility... I also see the problem where people become "spiritual" without seeing the need to find a place to belong. Inevitably, when they are their own chief theologian, high priest, counselor, and source of accountability, they have difficulties and make a variety of mistakes. I suspect a lot of the people "losing their religion" in recent decades fall into that category in one way or another. I'm not sure what the label "Catholic" means if you never engage as a Catholic. It becomes a tribal marker, but we have plenty of those in political parties, brand affiliations, nationalist (or cosmopolitan) sentiments, etc.