As a Catholic trapped in a Lutheran congregation, I still go to the Lutheran church with my family almost every Sunday.I miss maybe one or two days during hunting and that's gun season if I'm out bowhunting when the deer are moving into my sanctuary areas per the heavy pressure. Last year, I actually skipped skipping my one Sunday since our family was supposed to sponsor my wife's good friend's family joining that Sunday. As we left for church that day, I saw several bucks and does stream by my stand not 20 yards out. I was irritated. When I got to church and learned the dad/father in the family we were sponsoring was not there because he was hunting, I just about lost it. My wife was holding my arm tightly because she could tell the level of anger that was rising from within. It's funny now but it wasnt at the time and I'll never skip skipping again in that situation. That said, that is the exception, one, maybe two Sundays a year because of hunting. And since I'm Catholic, I can always make up for it on a weekday morning service. : )

P.S. I subscribe to the theory that one of my high school teachers - a priest at a catholic school - taught me. God doesn't care if you're in church every Sunday morning blindly reciting word from a book. He cares about how you live your life and how you treat and help others. Do those things correctly and there will be a place in heaven for you. Even if you don't believe in God. Then he told me to pretty much never tie his name to those comments or he'd lose his job.