I have a confession. I’m getting depressed about the state of the church nowadays. Duck and I have, over the years, come to agree on things we believe, things we are looking for in a church, and the things we just can’t compromise on. We believe in the Southern Baptist Faith and Message so we’re looking at Southern Baptist churches here.

Every one we visit though has something — I hate to say something wrong with it — but something that just lets us know this isn’t the church for us. Sometimes it’s something in the message given — I’m to blame for this — I pick apart a pastor’s sermon and compare it to what my Bible says. Unfortunately it doesn’t always match up. Or it’s the music. Duck is a gold ol’ southern boy in that he loves his hymns and southern gospel music. We have not been to a church yet that — even in their “traditional” service — has shown us anything traditional about their music.

The Baptist church we visited this morning didn’t even have a baptistry. Um, that’s pretty much a standard in Baptist churches by the way.  Oh, and we’re not totally sure there were kids there at all. The bulletin said they had a children’s church, but honestly people in our age range (the ones who would most likely have kids) was non-existent there. While Doodle wasn’t with us, we didn’t see any other kids.

For now, the search continues, but I’m wondering if we’re the “old school wierd ones” in that we want to go to a church that has stuff for kids, sings out of the hymnal, and the preacher preaches the Bible. Oh, did I mention that most sermons we’ve heard have 6 points? and a gazillion subpoints? My head spins trying to keep up with them. I did ask Duck if we could just start a church ourselves. I wonder if there are others out there searching for the same things we are?