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.
well.....IF you find a new church that seems pretty good for you.......and IF it does go bad sometime in the future...
well, quite frankly you will then decide whether to stay and fight..... or quit and move along to a better, third church.
just the way things are. but suppose your new church stays good? or suppose it stays good for a few years anyway, before going sour? You’ll be way ahead!
“nothing ventured, nothing gained...”
At any event, it makes perfectly good sense you quit the PCUSA. What an awful U-turn that church took...you could very well say... it was on a pretty good path to Heaven and then went 180 degrees staight for Hell.
Several churches have gone soft, liberal..without adding in all the hateful IslamoNazi krap like PCUSA
for what its worth, there are a number of Baptist=type churches that are somewhat Calvinist in their perspectives, and many are mostly local outfits, not controlled by a centralized hierarchy, or at least not beholden to one... (this is a common trait in Baptist circles, relatively autonomous or independent local churches, plus or minus...). Nazarenes the last time I looked seemed pretty staight-up in their prayers, too. And there are many more possibilities Roman Catholic is of course hierarcial.. and has a number of distinctives that may or may not be agreeable to you... but anyway the central idea is usually still pretty much there, IMHO. It will depend entirely on where you feel the most comfortable that you are both welcomed and in a basically sound church, and it won’t matter one whit what I might think from afar, so I will shut up ...
but it is just something I would want to do ...eventually anyway..find a reasonably-compatible new church to attend at least some of the time...
and they ARE out there!
Go for it!
Best,
fhc