Today was an important day for us, with our desire to find a good church before looking for a home. For those who don’t know Dallas or large metropolitan areas, this is important because you could easily live thirty minutes or more away from church. And the longer the drive, the less involved you’ll likely be. I don’t have plans for heavy involvement in ministry in these next four years (these are years of ministry preparation and the more ministry, the less preparation, or the longer the preparation), but there are various weekly meetings and we want to be close and not miss out because of drive time.<\/p>\n
Today we visited a church that had been recommended to us by two people. It was a different kind of church than either of us were raised in or have ever been to. But there were many things about it that we liked, and we would not be surprised if it becomes our church home. Other friends of ours moved in the area two months ago, visited this one church (at the recommendation of someone else), and never bothered looking at another church. I think we’ll probably visit other churches. This will give the Lord the opportunity to lead us to another, or to confirm that this church is the right one for us. Throughout the services, I thought of many things worthy of notice, but I was too engaged to be able to write them down and I think now that I won’t try to mention them. I’ll simply say that there were a number of refreshing aspects. On the other hand, I think that making visitors wear name tags and introducing them to the congregation during the service is a good way to repel visitors, at least with those with personalities like mine.<\/p>\n
We were planning to visit another church this evening, but now we learn that the evening service is only discipleship meetings, which apparently is not for visitors (from the website). Too bad, and it’s going to make somebody unhappy with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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