I have recently moved to a new location and have been trying to find a new church to go to. In my previous moves, I had a very easy time of finding a church search. For example, I moved for a job, and one of the former pastors of my church back home had moved to a church in that area. Plus, I was told to check out a church that some other mutual acquaintances knew. Well, lo and behold, turned out the two churches were really the same church! I went there every week and made friends that invited me to their daughter's wedding 6 years later. God is good like that!
But for once, I am overwhelmed by the mediocrity of the churches I have been attending. All of them are decent, and have had good preaching and worship. But none of them really seems to be a good fit. How do you all overcome this issue of finding a church? I have some criteria in mind, but I think it's more of a heart issue for me. I may be too picky this time around, perhaps.
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I may be too picky as well. Sometimes I feel bad thinking, "Well, I like this church better because of this...but I like this part of this one..." especially if it is preaching sound doctrine. For me it is a heart thing though. I have fallen in love with 2 churches in my life as a christian and both, in different ways, were brutally (so I felt) stripped away from me. Though, related to the one I more recently lost, it did take me quite awhile to realize just how much I did love that church.
Epikos is growing on me, but I wonder if I'll ever let either church in Milwaukee become home because I know it's temporary. Maybe leaving will be less painful if it's just "the church I go to" and not "my church".