Understood!
you did the right thing to get out of Satan’s church.
Calvin would be spinning in his grave, but that’s the way it is now with PCUSA.
I can only say what I would try doing.
I would look around for any decent church ... i would not have to agree with all of its doctrines.... for instance, coming from a Calvinist perspective, I would consider the still-good-varieties of Lutheranism, Church of Nazarene, and a number of additional churches, including RCatholic. Again, the idea would be to find an honest church that tries to read the Bible, period, plus offers fellowship.
You can tell when a church is trying to do the right thing, any specific doctrines can (especially in a situation such as yours where your church of choice was hiacked away from God).... you can tell when a pastor (and the congregation) are trying to do right. I guess its called discernment. Every denomination has some distinctive doctrines and frankly a lot of them are not particularly important in Sunday prayer services, or maybe get included in one prayer or hymn... but anyway if it were me, I would just gently visit any decent-Bible-oriented church that invited or welcomed me... and just patiently (and charitably) sit through a couple Sundays (or Saturdays if that’s their thing) and see what I felt like...
yes we can pray in our closets. and we can pray alone.
but it is also good, methinks, to have other sincere people to pray with, sometimes anyway.
just my thought. its your choice and I know you are in a tough situation with PCUSA having gone bad.
Stay in touch?
Best,
fhc
Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate the support! I don’t need to agree with every doctrine, or interpretation in a new church- I could never find a church then :-) I do feel that God is calling me to do much for Him, so I would need to find a church where the Spirit seems to lead me, and to a purpose— and that hasn’t happened yet. My old church was very sincere and Bible believing, they did not believe the heretical doctrine adopted by PCUSA leadership- my fears are the same situation in a new church that appears good at the local church level. I have attended several churches, just don’t feel the call yet. In God’s time I suppose, not mine.