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Originally Posted by Blsdbeyondmsure
We have to realize "the church" is made up of individual people. The support you are going to receive is based largely on your personal relationships with the individuals that make up the church.
If you have close relationships with people who attend your church, reach out to them. Let them know you need help. If you don't have relationships, try to start building some today. From my experience, most people are more than willing to help, IF you've reached out to them. Don't assume even if they are aware you're struggling that they know you need help. Often times, people don't want to intrude into someone's personal life, without being invited in.
Remember, when people fail, "His strength is made perfect in our weakness."
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Often (not always) what happens with people who complain that the Church is not meeting their needs (including the need to be "fixed" or whatever) is that these people just sit back and expect everyone else to make the effort. They get upset because no one came to talk to them or to invite them to participate in this or that activity and, yet, they don't put forth the effort to talk to others or to invite others.
I'm not saying that's the case with the original poster but I do know people in the church I attend that are like this. Along these lines, there are times when you do offer some of these people help that they make all kinds of excuses as to why what you're telling them won't work or why their situation is somehow different or somehow exempt from the commands of God's word.