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The article Why Bother with Church by Phillip Yancey talks how he has felt about Church his entire life, and his experience. Yancey starts out by talking about his youth experience with Church and the views that were in a way forced upon him. He talks about how he starts to drift away from the Church because he does not like the rules, and the hypocrisy from the members. Eventually he takes a couple steps back and with how he views the Church. Yancey thinks that how he views Christ comes down to going to the Church which fits him the best. The way he decides if the church is right he looks upward, downward, inward, and outward. These ways help him understand his choices on a deeper level, and how it affects every aspect of his life. He needed a Church that would not always feel like a routine which he was just going through the motions every service. Yancey needed a Church that felt like home and he felt …show more content…

He makes the reader feel like they are there with him, and can see exactly what he is talking about. This is a major strength because it allows the reader to feel more connected to the story, and gets them more interested in what Yancey has to say. The spot where it is the most descriptive is at the very beginning when he talks about the Church catching on fire; the way he describes it the reader feels like they are right there watching this Church burn. A part that I thought was weak was his transition from not liking what the Church was preaching to going back to loving Church again. It almost seemed like one paragraph he was talking about hating Church and never wanting to go again, and in the next paragraph he loved it again. I had to go back and reread that part multiple times to fully grasp what he was trying to convey, and I still am not completely sure of what he was trying to say there. He could have just used one more paragraph to explain his transition there to clear it all up to the

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