Yes there are many ways to Worship the Lord.
I was born and raised a Catholic, was baptized,1st communion, confirmation and was married the 1st time at St Anthonys of Padua.
Since leaving the C Church I have gained so much more knowledge in the Bible, I never read it before I was divorced, I have read it almost constantly since.
Corinthians talks all about marriage, sex, and divorce.
I don't feel the need to have a middle man when I confess my sins to God.
I take it directly to the man himself.
I Love the interaction of a good Pastor, and am thrilled that we have one as our new Pastor in our one year old Church.
The first Monday of each month we Break Bread together and drink the Fruit of the vine, then stand in a circle around the church and sing
Blest be the tie that binds
our Hearts in Christian Love
the fellowship of kindred minds
is like to that above..
Like you, my husband was reared Catholic, in Ohio, going to a Catholic school in grades 1 through 11 - then in the 12th (after fighting in Korea) went to a public school, and was amazed by the differences.
His first marriage in the Church when he was 21 became a tragic one, with him finally leaving the Church and Ohio. We met later in Florida, dated a year and a half, and have been married 42 years.
He said he always was in trouble growing up because he read a lot, and many books in the public library, asking in total innocence at the Catholic school about the four Popes in Europe at one time, etc..."Which one was the Infallible One?"- sent to the Mother Superior's Office over and over, or to be straightened out by the monks.
Just today we were discussing how he had never read the Bible growing up, nor even realized the Big Book on the lectern in his Church WAS "a Bible," read from in snatches, and interpreted solely by the priest or monks or sisters in school or at catechism.
In 1981, he was compelled by our Lord to read through the entire Bible, and finally undersood there "is only one mediator between him and God - His Son, Jesus Christ."
We talk with Him on a daily basis as individuals, and therein reap the benefits of a deep personal relationship.