I'll Take One Church Please!

We are *still* shopping for a church. When we moved here we knew we were leaving something special behind with Crossroads - and truthfully it was the hardest decision about leaving. We still consider it our church "home" and download sermons to listen to and such. But not being a part of the community has been really hard.

I never really understood the attachment to "church" - to me it was just a building to worship God. Growing up Catholic you really didn't think about it much. If you moved to a new place you just found the local Catholic Church and joined. There wasn't much choice in the matter and frankly, they tend to be all very similar anyway. So when I heard of people not moving or basing life decisions around a church community - I found it rather silly.

Just get a new church- is it that big of a deal??

But now that we are nondenominational Christians - life gets much more complicated. The choices of churches get much wider and run the gamut of wildly liberal to way too conservative. We've found one we're content with but its lacking the young family community, music and strong early childhood teaching that we were used to.

Basically we've come to realize that we just want Crossroads back and nothing else is going to do. So we're stuck in trying to figure out how to move beyond that, find a place that we can grow in and just let some earlier expectations go. Because no church is perfect - not even Crossroads.

But our problem is that we don't really fit in that typical church subculture that exists. We feel like a square peg trying to fit in a round hole sometimes. And I know it'll all work out. We're meant to be somewhere and in the meantime we're finding ways to make it work for our family.

But really folks, you can only justify using Veggie Tale videos as Sunday School for so long....