We have had quite the day on this cool Sunday. We still have yet to find a church in or even somewhat near our area. We lost several months of searching due to our off season weekend groups and with summer camp going on, but still we are starting to get a little down about the whole thing.
We picked where we wanted to go last night. Looked at the map to make sure we knew how to get there. It wasn't to far from our house which was a huge plus for us. We pull up to this private school, which is where they were meeting, and there wasn't a soul in sight. The place was completely empty and it was supposed to start in 5 minutes. We obviously didn't get the "we are no longer a church" memo.
So we were still determined to go somewhere so we went searching in Swannanoa's downtown area. I know that means nothing to most of you, but we were shocked to find out that Swannanoa ( Swan-na-no-where) even had a downtown. What we found was about 11 churches in a 1 block radius. It was kind of sickening to be honest. You have the big First Baptist 30 yards away from the Free Will First Baptist which is down from the Presbyterian Church which is next to The Gathering...you see what I am painting?? This town is way too tiny to have all those churches in one little block. So we ended up driving around for an hour looking at different churches and following signs around random areas trying to belong somewhere. We gave up in the end.
We came home and started doing some research on different dominations and their core beliefs. I think we are further away on our search than when we started 9 or 10 months ago. I know we won't agree with everything at "one" church. But we do think it would be nice if we agreed on some basics like 1) Jesus died for everyone not just a select few or the elect 2) children under the age of 10 should be allowed to be with their family in the "main worship" not forbidden to join 3) God does not make bad things happen...please do not answer the question "Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?" by saying "I don't know, but we just know he is a good God." The enemy comes to steal kill and destroy. God is not the doer of evil. 4) the Holy Spirit still exist and as Follower you can be filled with that good stuff and things like miracles, speaking in tongues, the sick being healed, and bread raining from heaven still happen.
You know I could add a few more, but we just don't know where we should go. There are two churches that could be options but one is over 30 minutes away and the other 45 minutes. There is a lot of town and community between home and there and we would rather find something within the community we live in. I guess that was our Sunday.
I did make some awesome homemade Italian Bread to go with our lasagna. I think it is my favorite bread yet that I have made. Yummm! See you tomorrow.
This is one of the dogwoods next to our house. The
leaves on the trees are really starting to change.
This time of year is always exciting.
This is under neath our bird feeder. It is a ceramic man with
his sombrero broken off. Bird seed has fallen inside of it
and started sprouting! I thought it was pretty neat.
1 comments:
i hope you find a church soon. it is soooo hard not having one. i wish you were close to mine, you would like it i think. and im really glad you are blogging all month. i like reading about your life.
-hannaH
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