We, too, have been trying to find a “perfect” church, but I have come to the realization that there is no perfect church here on Earth, until Christ returns and establishes the perfect church, once and forever.
Praying that God will reveal where He wants you to fellowship.
As a side note, fill me in on the SBC - homosexual reference. I need that information for my own information. I’ve been thinking they were one of the last holdouts, from an organizational level. Not perfect, at all. I just thought they were more grounded. Ugg....
There has been subtle, but noticeable, softening on the stance against homosexuality in the highest levels of the SBC leadership of late. Consider the latest convention meeting, where open activist homosexuals’ presence was entertained and Southern Baptist Albert Mohler all but conceded that homosexuality was most like an inborn, not-chosen orientation. Several years ago, before the national convention, SBC leaders even met for an hour with the most vicious, militant homoNazis on the front lines of the war, at the venue of the convention, to “discuss” the issue of non-acceptance of homosexuality, never mind redefined marriage. This means that the SBC has given the Gaystapo a place at the debate table, something that would have been unconscionable only a decade ago. And the homo-activists crowed about this to no end as heralding a barely perceptible move (they coddle and value the smallest incremental move and capitalize on it) in the direction of at least questioning this theology. The homosexual lobby essentially came away winners just by gaining audience, when they should have been dismissed out of hand.
I believe this is the reason I do not belong to any particular congregation or worship at any particular church... I can go “see God” every day by opening my eyes and living life no matter where circumstance has placed me.
http://www.wesleyan.org/235/a-wesleyan-view-of-homosexuality