church

finding a church home might not be as easy as i was hoping. i was hoping that we would, within our first couple of sundays, "happen" upon just the church the Lord has for us...but it hasn't happened just yet. we actually ended up leaving a church service this morning. for all who know ryan and i, you would likely agree with me when i say i make many a decision based on my feelings, while ryan usually tends to make his decisions by thinking things through. as the service began this morning, an feeling of uneasiness came over me, but i thought that since we were already there, we should give the church a try. but, after two songs (familiar songs, i might add..songs that i actually like-though the pace was WAY fast..but still, songs i like), ryan leaned over and said he had a weird feeling about the place...that he was just uneasy. i quickly agreed and a few moments later, he asked if i wanted to leave. i was very surprised, but thought since we both had a weird feeling about the place-maybe we should. and, so, we whispered about it a minute more and ended up leaving. that was a first for both of us...in the past, we've always just stuck it out at odd churches. and i have been to some strange places before. we decided, as we were walking back to our house (the church was SUPER close), to go try a small baptist church we had noticed down the road. so, we hopped in the car and headed down there, thinking we could be just like 10 minutes late, but unfortunately, the baptist church started before the one we had left, so we would have been like 40 minutes late... so, we drove around and looked at some other churches, but the time was not right for any of them. we actually thought at one point that we had found a place-but it turned out to be morman-interestingly enough, right across the street from it was a unitarian universalist church. and the morman church had no big sign with it's name on it, just a little sign by the door that my super-vision husband noticed. so that's how they get people to come?? anyway, ryan looked up some churches on the internet and we are all set with places to visit over the next few weeks, thankfully. =) but all that to say, we both really missed southcrest once again this morning...we missed hearing geunine people share their faith, being encouraged in the Word, and worshipping with fellow believers. :\