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You only need to look around for a church that suits your needs...

Others have recommendations -- but I'll suggest that the church of Christ is worth considering. Per scripture, women are prohibited from participating during the worship service. The preacher typically wears a suit (as opposed to vestments). The honorific is a simple ``Mister'' not ``Reverend'' or ``Pastor''.

And the music is very traditional, almost militaristic (think ``Onward Christian Soldiers'', ``A Mighty Fortress'' and ``To the Work''). I've heard very little (if any) of the sappy, self-centered femenized songs at church of Christ. The harmony of the acapella singing (led by a song leader) is inspiring.

The church of Christ is particularly strong (in numbers) in solid, all-American, conservative communities such as Lubbock, TX, Franklin, TN, Cullman, AL, Harrison, AR and Moore, OK to name but a few places I've visited. In short, look for a red county in a red state! :-) During the height of the 2008 campaign season, I never saw an Obama bumper sticker on a car in a parking lot of a church of Christ but plenty of trucks with gun racks! YMMV.

ACTS 2:38

As an addendum to my prior posting, the church of Christ preaches -- without apology -- that there is an everlasting, literal HELL and that Christ is the ONE WAY to salvation. It has largely been immune from the ``Social Gospel'', perhaps due to many of the preachers getting trained at Harding, David Lipscomb, Abilene Christian and other conservative universities.

And not unlike like the Tea Party, each congregation is an independent entity not under the aegis of a centralized, worldly authority, only Christ.

And there's no gender-neutral poppycock (such as that I heard at a watered-down denominational ``church'' on a business trip to Toronto where the Holy Spirit was consistently referred to as ``she'').