A change of habit: Used to go bar-hopping. You started church-shopping, did ya?
I would like to attend a church this coming weekend that is not Catholic, because sometimes I like attending churches where I can take communion. I am crazy like that. However, I do not know what denomination of church I should attend, as I have no strong allegiance to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination that I grew up in (despite fondness for both of the churches I attended in my childhood); besides, I've attended all the CC(DoC) churches within a twenty-minute drive at least once (except one in Ashland that, interestingly, moM and daD have been to but not me) and have not been particularly enamoured.
So you will help me pick one of the denominations out of the Greater Richmond Yellow Pages. I have few requirements:
1) Must be Christian.
2) Must have open communion (since that is my major purpose in attending).
3) Must not be small-P pentecostal (which includes big-P Pentecostal and others).
4) Must not be more liberal than the average CC(DIC) church.
5) Must not be more conservative than the average Southern Baptist church.
6) Must not be excessively wack.
More requirements to follow, I am sure, but there's a start. I will start crossing off denominations as I see fit.
Advent Christian African Methodist Episcopal African Methodist Episcopal Zion American Catholic Anglican Apostolic Armenian Assemblies of God Baha'i Faith American Baptist Free Will Baptist Independent Baptist Independent Fundamental Baptist
Missionary Baptist
Reformed Baptist
Southern Baptist Bible Church Church of the Brethren Buddhist Roman Catholic Charismatic Christadelphian Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)(20 churches in the Richmond area, apparently) Christian Methodist Christian and Missionary Alliance Christian Science Church of Christ Church of God Church of God in Christ Church of God in Prophecy Church of Jesus Christ Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(only one in Richmond) Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ Congregational Christian Eastern Orthodox Eckankar
Episcopal Evangelical Free(only two churches in Richmond, which is a surprise; the Ames E-Free was one of the bigger churches back home, I thought) Evangelical Presbyterian Foursquare Gospel Friends Full Gospel Grace Brethren Greek Orthodox(I wonder if their attendance went up post-Greek Wedding) Hindu Holiness Independent Fundamental Islamic Jehovah's Witnesses(18 churches, and my door hasn't been knocked on once) Lutheran, ELCA Lutheran, Missouri Synod Lutheran, Wisconsin Synod Mennonite Independent Methodist United Methodist(gobs of them; probably second behind Southern Baptist in numbers) Nazarene New Testament Pentecostal Pentecostal Holiness Presbyterian, PCA Presbyterian, USA Quaker Religious Science Seventh-Day Adventists United Pentecostal Unity Vineyard Fellowship Wesleyan Word Word of Faith
Please help me.
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
