I knew there were problems but which i could handle till i found a viable church, and the RC church was all i knew locally. I would try to witness to others but send them to an Assemblies of God in another town, the only one i thought was born again. Plus i was rather independent. This is not the Bible belt. If the preachers i head on evangelical radio had a church locally i would have went there.
But because i stayed, i can honestyl testify to the difference. After i humble prayed if God wanted me to go to another church, then right away the Lord told me (after i tried to tell someone about Christ, who turned out to be a believer) of an evan. church about 8 miles away. Which was not a dramatic changed for me, since i was an avid listener of evangelical radio for years, plus i had gone to some charismatic meetings and Prot. type Bible studies.
Hang in there bro.
I can identify. Even though I only went to mass maybe 3 more times, none of the guys that led me to Lord, told me where to go. They said that was up to my own prayerful judgement. Then I went to Vietnam. When I got there, I went to see the installation Chaplain, a Major, World War 2 veteran. He was a Southern Baptist, even though I had no idea what that meant. He was such a Godly man, I thought maybe there is something to this.