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When faith groups lose their spiritual vitality

Our small group has been meeting for prayer and study for three years but lately when we gather it feels forced and hollow and none of us want to admit that what used to feel sacred now feels like obligation. We keep showing up but the life has gone out of it and I don't know if we should push through or let it end.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community discovers that shared practices can become empty rituals, and must face whether to revive or release what no longer serves.

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