I have participated in attending Baptist churches with my mother since before I can remember. Normally, I’m imagining whatever story the pastor is telling in my head. In my experience, they’re very detailed, and I try to play out the story like a television show in my head. Nothing necessarily needs to go in my head in order to attend church, besides the basic function of getting up and physically moving there. For myself personally, I does add a little bit more meaning behind the action for me to consciously think about what’s going on around me and what the pastor is talking about. It does not make it less meaningful for me to think more consciously about church. Attending church without any inner monologue is not strange to me, and it does
