“I realized that I don’t feel comfortable telling people to believe what I believe the way I believe it. I don’t want to tell people to worship as I do. I realized that what I enjoy about mission work is that I am tangibly helping people. And I still want to do that. But for me, I don’t know if I can go back to sitting in a pew.
I always felt drawn to mission work. But after my first mission trip, when I was told by a pastor I had to go share the gospel with people who were just sitting there (I did not feel compelled to share with them), I knew the church's idea of missionary work was not for me. And it was around that time I determined organized religion was not for me. So I chose faith.
