For us, we chose the Missouri Synod Lutheran church. They do not belong to the NCC, they teach Christ crucified to save us from our sins and it was also the LCMS who excommunicated Killer Tiller before he chose to attend the welcoming ELCA.
There are some LCMS that may have gone to the "contemporary" type services so check it out. Ours is very traditional. The new hymnals post the scripture from which the liturgy is taken. It is very beautiful and one learns scripture by reciting or singing the liturgy.
As I said in post, it has to be church that "works" for me. Everyone will say/think their church is the best, the truthful one. Otherwise why would they be members of it? and I understand that, but I am a funny individual and I have my own needs, one of them as I said, is that its "culture" (people, rituals, etc) is as close to the RCC as possible. That is important to me.
I will read and thank you again for your help.
Interesting that you are considering an Orthodox Church. Our former pastor, (WELS now LC-MS. very confessional also very interested in appropriate forms of worship) said that the Eastern Orthodox Church was the closest thing to confessional Lutheran.