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Hi all!
I was raised SDA by my mom. My father, raised Catholic, floats around spiritual things but was never fully committed to any. I was baptized around age 13 at the College Church in Lancaster, MA. I really liked that church although we lived a distance away and were never very regular in attending for more than a few months at a time. I loved that people debated serious things and didn't necessarily believe exactly the same on everything but I never saw things get disrespectful or argumentative.
Once in college I fell away as witnessed a church really fall apart over arguments about the SDA beliefs about meats and whether that applied to food for the homeless and other (what I still believe) really foolish things. I thought, is this what SDAism really produces or leads to???? After that I attended nondenominational church for a while, contemplated converting to Catholicism, married a Muslim and thought about that, and have been generally confused ever since. I've visited SDA churches several times through the years with mixed feelings. I love the music, the reverence, the lifestyle, how organized the lessons are, and have never found a communion that feels complete without footwashing. But I still question/doubt about the truth of several doctrines. Investigative judgement, the state of the dead (mainly due to Paul's "away from the body/ with Christ" and Jesus' rich man and Lazarus), Sunday as the mark (excludes Christians who love and follow Jesus- this makes no sense to me).
Most recently I was looking into Anglican/Episcopalian churches but those seem like either a hot mess right now or over the top liberal to me.
It doesn't help that the current SDA churches near me are each ethnic and I have a hard time feeling comfortable in them. Two have become almost exclusively African and two others are Spanish. From experience, each culture definitely puts their own spin on things. I'm thinking of trying another church a little farther away tomorrow. I would love to find a home church and would love to come home to the Adventist church if I can solve those issues and lingering doubts.
I liked reading the definitions posted and thought the the Evangelical label sounds a lot like what I believe! Pray for me and I'd love any input you may have.
I was raised SDA by my mom. My father, raised Catholic, floats around spiritual things but was never fully committed to any. I was baptized around age 13 at the College Church in Lancaster, MA. I really liked that church although we lived a distance away and were never very regular in attending for more than a few months at a time. I loved that people debated serious things and didn't necessarily believe exactly the same on everything but I never saw things get disrespectful or argumentative.
Once in college I fell away as witnessed a church really fall apart over arguments about the SDA beliefs about meats and whether that applied to food for the homeless and other (what I still believe) really foolish things. I thought, is this what SDAism really produces or leads to???? After that I attended nondenominational church for a while, contemplated converting to Catholicism, married a Muslim and thought about that, and have been generally confused ever since. I've visited SDA churches several times through the years with mixed feelings. I love the music, the reverence, the lifestyle, how organized the lessons are, and have never found a communion that feels complete without footwashing. But I still question/doubt about the truth of several doctrines. Investigative judgement, the state of the dead (mainly due to Paul's "away from the body/ with Christ" and Jesus' rich man and Lazarus), Sunday as the mark (excludes Christians who love and follow Jesus- this makes no sense to me).
Most recently I was looking into Anglican/Episcopalian churches but those seem like either a hot mess right now or over the top liberal to me.
It doesn't help that the current SDA churches near me are each ethnic and I have a hard time feeling comfortable in them. Two have become almost exclusively African and two others are Spanish. From experience, each culture definitely puts their own spin on things. I'm thinking of trying another church a little farther away tomorrow. I would love to find a home church and would love to come home to the Adventist church if I can solve those issues and lingering doubts.
I liked reading the definitions posted and thought the the Evangelical label sounds a lot like what I believe! Pray for me and I'd love any input you may have.
