What denominations are represented on Whoesoever Will, May Come?

What are the denominations represented here?

  • United Methodist Church

    Votes: 4 17.4%
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

    Votes: 7 30.4%
  • Presbyterian Church (USA)

    Votes: 2 8.7%
  • The Episcopal Church

    Votes: 7 30.4%
  • United Church of Canada

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • Anglican Church of Canada

    Votes: 2 8.7%
  • Liberal Catholic

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • United Church of Christ

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • Non-denominational

    Votes: 5 21.7%
  • Other liberal denomination

    Votes: 5 21.7%

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FireDragon76

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I grew up Methodist, became a "none", practiced Buddhism for several years. Then I attended an Anglican, and later, an Orthodox church. Now I am a member of the ELCA.
 
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I grew up Churches of Christ, in fact while attending a Churches of Christ-affiliated is when I became more theologically progressive and politically liberal. I have sense converted to Anglicanism, more specifically The Episcopal Church.
 
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My church affiliation journey:

0-17 years old: Roman Catholic (infant baptized and confirmed)
18-20 years old: Ambivalent (no church)
21-24 years old: Calvary Chapel (believer baptized)
-------->Graduated with Biblical Studies degree from conservative university
25-28 years old: Evangelical Free Church of America (paid teaching staff)
-------->Accepted to conservative seminary
29-31 years old: Various conservative churches
32-Current age: No formal church community

I'm thinking about attending a local liberal Baptist church next week (they do things differently). However, once I became a centrist, no church was a perfect fit. Several communities have made my family felt unwelcome because of our beliefs. I currently have a diverse group of friends (atheists, conservatives, moderates, agnostics). They all think I'm the "liberal Christian".

I'm starting to think that the way we "do" church is very wrong. Almost everywhere I look its the same old thing. Sugary donuts and cheap coffee, captive theater seating, trendy rock worship, flash meet and greet, Powerpoint advertising, guilt offering, verbose prayer, boring lecture-based sermon, verbose prayer, rinse and repeat. It's all one big production.

 
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My church affiliation journey:

0-17 years old: Roman Catholic (infant baptized and confirmed)
18-20 years old: Ambivalent (no church)
21-24 years old: Calvary Chapel (believer baptized)
-------->Graduated with Biblical Studies degree from conservative university
25-28 years old: Evangelical Free Church of America (paid teaching staff)
-------->Accepted to conservative seminary
29-31 years old: Various conservative churches
32-Current age: No formal church community

I'm thinking about attending a local liberal Baptist church next week (they do things differently). However, once I became a centrist, no church was a perfect fit. Several communities have made my family felt unwelcome because of our beliefs. I currently have a diverse group of friends (atheists, conservatives, moderates, agnostics). They all think I'm the "liberal Christian".

I'm starting to think that the way we "do" church is very wrong. Almost everywhere I look its the same old thing. Sugary donuts and cheap coffee, captive theater seating, trendy rock worship, flash meet and greet, Powerpoint advertising, guilt offering, verbose prayer, boring lecture-based sermon, verbose prayer, rinse and repeat. It's all one big production.
Is that a thing that happens in Baptist churches? Also why are men wearing suits such a big deal in Baptist churches?
 
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I'm starting to think that the way we "do" church is very wrong. Almost everywhere I look its the same old thing. Sugary donuts and cheap coffee, captive theater seating, trendy rock worship, flash meet and greet, Powerpoint advertising, guilt offering, verbose prayer, boring lecture-based sermon, verbose prayer, rinse and repeat. It's all one big production.
Have you tried a more traditional worship service? most liberal denominations tend to be traditional in worship (or at least have traditional services even if they're experimenting with others).

The donuts are an attempt at hospitality on the run. It would be great to follow a worship service with a sit-down family meal. But at least in our church, people aren't willing to stay for that. Serving snacks in mingling is pretty much universal in churches and industrial setting. I admit that I'd prefer something more imaginative than donuts, but choice of food is hardly critical to after-worship fellowship.
 
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I'm unsure what I am denomination wise.
You're posting in the liberal group. The traditional liberal denominations are the mainline, some of the more liberal non-denominational or evangelicals, and (except for the official party line on gender / sexual issues) even the Catholics. They all have similar Biblical scholarship, and there's a large part of theology that's shared. So I'm not sure what denomination you are is so critical.
 
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I was raised United Methodist and have gone to Episcopal, Unity and Lutheran churches. Last year I found a Cooperative Baptist church close to my home that has a diverse congregation of liberal to conservative members. My bible study group has 12 members, 6 of us are pretty liberal theologically, two are moderate and the rest are conservative. We are a pretty good representation of the diversity within the church body. The service is traditional and the population runs a little older. I joined last year and really enjoy it.
 
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I consider myself a moderate, yet I keep finding myself attracted to theologically liberal interpretations of Christianity. I think that most theological conservatives would recognize me as being liberal more-so than moderate, if I were to discuss my core theological beliefs.

I attended a conservative denomination in my younger days, was not affiliated with a church for many years, was more-or-less 'recruited' by a very conservative church, and ended up with the UMC after doing a thorough investigation of various denominations and engaging in a lot of prayer and meditation (found myself drawn to the UMC and the Quakers/Society of Friends, and gave visiting a non-denominational service some thought).
 
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