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<blockquote data-quote="DanielGarneau" data-source="post: 66798161" data-attributes="member: 368956"><p>Hello fellow members of CF,</p><p></p><p>This is a huge topic. I'll just share on some personal aspects of it for now. Circumstances and the people I happenned to know have always been very important in leading me to a local Church rather than another. When I chose to turn my life over to Christ, my father had a friend who introduced us to a Baptist Church start up of 50 who grew up to 500 or so.</p><p></p><p>Having grown in that Church, and done a BTh in seminary, I was eventually mandated by that local Church to start a daughter Church. We grew from 20 or so to somewhere around 50 or 60 including children. But then situations came up that made me believe I should leave full time ministry. This was a huge decision with important impacts of all sorts, like the need to get training...</p><p></p><p>I wanted to stay in the same Church, but when members came to me because they did not like the orientation taken by the new pastor on practical issues involving how we relate to other denominational groups, I decided to leave that Church for the sake of not interfering with what the leadership wanted.</p><p></p><p>I was not ready at the time to go back to the mother Church, so we joined a mid size Church that focused part of their meetings on members sharing between themselves about what God did in their lifes. The leadership and many members there were from a Christian Brethen background. There were also several from a Baptist background, as well as Christian alliance and non denominational groups. We knew many people, and stayed for several years.</p><p></p><p>Then I got home sick, and wanted to go back to my Baptists roots. A new lead pastor seemed to be doing a good job at preaching relevant expository Bible messages. This appeared to be helping the Church move away from some of its most hindering characteristics, and towards maturity and growth in character. It was great to be back with so many old friends, and especially the visiting pastors or evangelists from the denomination whom I knew from previous years. </p><p></p><p>We had not been there a year yet when we became aware of this church struggling over leadership issues. At the same time, we realized that our oldest college age daughter did not at all understand some of the features of that Church, which to her seemed "artificial". </p><p></p><p>This is when I was approached by the leaders of a non denominational start-up, former Baptists themselves, to join their group. When they explained their project, I immediately knew it was the right move to do at that time in the context of our family history. So that was 1998. And we have been with that group ever since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DanielGarneau, post: 66798161, member: 368956"] Hello fellow members of CF, This is a huge topic. I'll just share on some personal aspects of it for now. Circumstances and the people I happenned to know have always been very important in leading me to a local Church rather than another. When I chose to turn my life over to Christ, my father had a friend who introduced us to a Baptist Church start up of 50 who grew up to 500 or so. Having grown in that Church, and done a BTh in seminary, I was eventually mandated by that local Church to start a daughter Church. We grew from 20 or so to somewhere around 50 or 60 including children. But then situations came up that made me believe I should leave full time ministry. This was a huge decision with important impacts of all sorts, like the need to get training... I wanted to stay in the same Church, but when members came to me because they did not like the orientation taken by the new pastor on practical issues involving how we relate to other denominational groups, I decided to leave that Church for the sake of not interfering with what the leadership wanted. I was not ready at the time to go back to the mother Church, so we joined a mid size Church that focused part of their meetings on members sharing between themselves about what God did in their lifes. The leadership and many members there were from a Christian Brethen background. There were also several from a Baptist background, as well as Christian alliance and non denominational groups. We knew many people, and stayed for several years. Then I got home sick, and wanted to go back to my Baptists roots. A new lead pastor seemed to be doing a good job at preaching relevant expository Bible messages. This appeared to be helping the Church move away from some of its most hindering characteristics, and towards maturity and growth in character. It was great to be back with so many old friends, and especially the visiting pastors or evangelists from the denomination whom I knew from previous years. We had not been there a year yet when we became aware of this church struggling over leadership issues. At the same time, we realized that our oldest college age daughter did not at all understand some of the features of that Church, which to her seemed "artificial". This is when I was approached by the leaders of a non denominational start-up, former Baptists themselves, to join their group. When they explained their project, I immediately knew it was the right move to do at that time in the context of our family history. So that was 1998. And we have been with that group ever since. [/QUOTE]
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