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Hey, I know that church! I travel to Atlanta fairly often, and like to stop by the "OK Cafe" to eat sometimes... :)

I think it's a beautiful church building - the kind you look at and think "they don't make 'em like that anymore..." assuming you don't realize that it's just a few years old... :)

So what kind of church is it? I've been wondering about that.

Fletcher J

It's a kind of oddball church. It started out in a storefront as a mission church of the Episcopal Church USA (a/k/a ECUSA). It was very conservative from the git-go, and they officially broke away from the Diocese BEFORE they built their church building. The rector is a TV preacher as well.

They started out being quite formal with an ECUSA liturgy (Book of Common Prayer etc.) but in recent years they have become more and more evangelical & charismatic. They tend to mega-church style services with well-choreographed praise choirs and bands, the sermon is more central than the Eucharist.

As I noted above, we considered the church but rejected it early on because we were always very "High Church". In the Diocese of Atlanta, if you're High Church the only place to go is Catholic. The diocese is traditionally "low" and the bishop has just about destroyed the only Anglo-Catholic diocese in Atlanta.