[Jarons]

I my personal experience, the church is a double edge sword. If you go to the wrong one, the congregation can drive someone away for a long time or forever. I had that experience as a child in church by my Sunday school teacher who judged a member of my family that she did not know personally. I was angry, felt judged, I did not ever want to see the inside of a church or associate with the people from church because I did not want people judging me.
It was also because people in the church that I found my way back. At my wife's urging, she begged me to go because she never really went to church as a child. She knew that I had been and she wanted me to go to be her security blanket. The people in that church were so warm and welcoming. I felt like that I was accepted and not judged. I ultimately got baptized and taught Sunday school for a year and a half until I moved to North Carolina. IDK how good of teacher I was because I was learning the Bible myself. Ultimately, my goal for the kids was to not want to quit church because of their Sunday school teacher. I felt if they learned the Bible and had a relationship with God they would eventually get baptized and serve God.
Lately I have not been as good as I should be about learning and having a relationship with God. Lot of it is because that I have not been teaching kids on Sunday and have gotten lazy. I haven't really been teaching my own kids anything anymore, we used to have about a 5 minute lesson just before dinner. It is nobodys fault by my own. I know things will change. We now attend a great church in NC one the most warm and diverse places you would ever go. I am the only one who make that change in me.

I don't think my answer really fit the topic of the thread. I just started typing. Sorry for such a long response.