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To: Bodleian_Girl

“”evangelical (and Bible teaching) church with a choir, no entertainment, no band nor drum set on stage””

Those are the requirements (preference) the poster mentioned and in spite of the long list you posted, I dare say none of them would fit. We found a wonderful fundamental Baptist church after we moved to GA from CA and there were the suits/ties/no jeans/wonderful choir/fabulous piano player and I think all that’s left is the fabulous piano player.....no choir, lots of noise called music, same pastor but now in jeans and sport shirt and truthfully a real turn-off!

I made the decision that we were going to attend church there after the first sermon and I saw the hymnals on the back of the pews. My husband said, “Is this what you’re looking for” and I said, “Absolutely - they have hymnals.” Plus the pastor and sermon was real without worrying about “political correctness” - didn’t worry about driving congregants away! HA!

Sadly - I do not like the changes. A lot of members have left; some who really were the glue for senior events which were great. Got to see a lot in GA we would never have seen without participating in the senior trips. An older family pastor left and he was only reason I could get my husband to join.


32 posted on 04/01/2018 7:47:45 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush
Those are the requirements (preference) the poster mentioned and in spite of the long list you posted, I dare say none of them would fit.

The person who actually created that list has a questionnaire that churches fill out before acceptance to the list.

So these churches, at the time they filled out the questionnaire were very conservative, especially in music and other criteria the poster asked for.

BTW, this list is from David Cloud’s website. I apologize that I don’t have a link but it’s easily found using Google.

42 posted on 04/01/2018 11:53:48 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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