Hopefully I can either be encouraged in what denomination I should seek, or be corrected if indeed I have any serious doctrinal issues I am unaware of.
I would say start with what the Bible says we need with God. Get to know God's word so you can have an overall understanding, and know what God's word emphasizes, for our attention. It appears to me, that certain people and groups can call too much attention to things which make them different, but which are not clearly what God's word says is most important and needing our attention.
Here are some scriptures which self-favoring and self-congratulating people and groups might not make a point of telling you about >
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5)
Yes, our Heavenly Father desires to share His own love with each of us who are His children. Not only does He desire to do this, but this scripture says the Holy Spirit is sharing God's own love with us,
"in our hearts" < this is so very personal. Yet, there are people and groups who talk and relate and counsel, as though God is distant and only keeping an eye on us, from a distance, maybe working in our circumstances.
So, I would not get decoyed with trying to figure out people's doctrine which may have nothing to do with helping us to personally share with God in His own love.
Also, ones might make a big question about how do we know God's will, what is our calling of God in our lives; yet, they say not a word about how every child of God is called to submit to how God personally rules each of us >
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
At every moment, then, every one of us is called to personally submit to howsoever God rules each of us in His own peace. This is a basic of our Christian calling > for all of us >
"in one body".
But there are people and groups who make a project of trying to find out what each individual is supposed to be doing - - while they might not say a word about how our Father personally rules each of us His children
"in one body" > with Him coordinating us all, now, in His own peace.
At any moment, we can discover what God is calling us to do . . . simply by doing what He at any time has us doing in sharing with Him in His peace.
And we have scripture about our basic love calling, about how to relate with one another while we are discovering how our Father's peace rules us >
"with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love," (Ephesians 4:2)
"Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you." (Ephesians 4:31-32)
There are ones who make a project of insisting that
"only God can forgive"; yet our Apostle Paul here says God wants us to forgive >
"even as God".
And these things might not make it into doctrinal statements. Meanwhile, ones can be making anti-personal statements about how we are called to relate with God. And they can say things which are anti-forgiveness.
So, like I say, I would not only look at doctrinal statements; but see who is feeding you their example of these things of God's word. Examples can be in churches and groups where there are wrong people and even wrong leaders; but I would keep attention to who the examples are.
And please give us a sample of scripture and your doctrinal question about it, right here.
