1. You've stopped any church involvement despite manageable circumstances. If you're in the early stage of the backsliding rope, then you're randomly missing church services/duties. Or if you're still in church, you're bored. You wonder what you're doing there.
2. You criticize the church without being part of a solution.
3. You fellowship no more. As a matter of fact, you no longer hang out with brothers & sisters of the church for you don't want them to ask about your whereabouts.
4. You dislike conversations interjected with 'Amen!' or 'Praise God', in fact you find the latter ridiculous and insincere.
5. You barely pray or stopped it altogether.
6. You don't read the bible anymore. You feel like there's nothing new in it for you. In fact, there are more important things pressing you.
7. If you're at the beginning of the backsliding stage, you feel bad about all the above at their first occurrence but you ignore and suppress the bad feeling.
But what's the alternative to that? Living a life without God or at best, at a good distance from Him? Being the master of your own universe? How is that working out so far?
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