[MuttTheHoople]

That ping made me so angry I could change my religion. I'm Methodist and the 'open hearts, open minds, open doors' thing has been tough to live with sometimes. I actually did. Though my United Methodist church was conservative and bible-believing, I felt as though we were simply a cash cow for the State conference so they could fund their leftist agenda. When we moved out of Jackson, MS down to Terry, MS (about 20 miles south), we started shopping other churches. After visiting a couple of Baptist churches, we settled on a Congregational Methodist church. The Congregational Methodists have been around for 150 years, but they've only recently started moving out of the backcountry and into the suburbs (I know I know, you probably think the entire State of Mississippi is "back country", but I digress 8^D). They adhere to Methodist doctrine of our founder John Wesley, but they're much more conservative. You might want to explore going to a Congregational Methodist, or Wesleyan, or even a Church of God. No need using your tithe to fund the Iraq anti-War movement.

[Froufrou]

Thank you Mutt! Your concerns are mirror-image to my thoughts/fears. My BIL and SIL lived in Quitman. They are Baptists.

I went to a dear friend's funeral at a Baptist church not long ago and was totally ostracized. It's a large church, but still; you get the picture. I felt the people were jockeying for position, not where to sit so much as with whom to sit. At a FUNERAL! Shame on me for scorning.

I haven't tithed for the reasons you say. I am going to look for a church as you describe. Thank you again!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Here is a list of churches that belong to the extremely liberal, even communistic, socialistic, leaning churches. This is a very good litmus test of "churches" masquereding as churches. They are very dangerous because sheeple believe that if they are being taught something in church it must be true.

We were Evangelical Lutheran Church in America but left 14 years ago for the Lutheran Church Missour Synod.

If you notice the LCMS is not on this list and is a conservative, Bible believing church.

• African Methodist Episcopal Church • Alliance of Baptists • The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

• Diocese of the Armenian Church of America

• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

• Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

• Church of the Brethren

• The Coptic Orthodox Church in North America

• The Episcopal Church

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

• Friends United Meeting

• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

• Hungarian Reformed Church in America

• International Council of Community Churches

• Korean Presbyterian Church in America

• Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

• Mar Thoma Church • National Baptist Convention of America

• National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.

• National Missionary Baptist Convention of America

• Orthodox Church in America

• Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA

• Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

• Polish National Catholic Church of America

• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

• Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.

• Reformed Church in America

• Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada

• The Swedenborgian Church

• Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch

• Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America

• United Church of Christ

• The United Methodist Church