There is no such thing as a "non denominational" church. ⛪
The "standard fare" for Christianity in the US is Unreformed, Methodist, Evangelical, Arminian, Dispensational, and Zionist.
Research these things carefully.
To my discernment, I've set my house towards a church of Reformation, Calvinism, Covenant Theology, and Christendom.
#ToChristAlone
Lutherans always get forgotten 😕 (I’m not including ELCA in that definition - that at best barely counts as a Christian church body at this point)
I did forget them. 😅
Baptist. Not Southern Convention Baptist.
This is my very favorite Pastor to listen to this year...
Dr. Alan Cairns of the Free Presbyterian Church of North America.
He's a Calvinist, but I don't hold that against him. He's Irish and his sermons go back to the 1970s.
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The Armenian Church is an Apostolic Orthodox church and the only one in that list that deserves a second glance and a follow.
The others are many things but hardly any true church.
Lots of heresies in the “standard fare”, as they’ve by and large all capitulated on abortion, gay marriage, women’s ordination, unitarianism, etc — all things their own founders would be horrified by and would no doubt be left in deep repentance (which is what we should all be doing).
I agree fully with where you’ve set your house, and I came to much of the same conclusions.
Where I struggle is that the doctrinal drift is inevitable without real church authority (pointing to Christ).
The conservative Reformed churches that still try to hold the line (and God bless them) lack the means to stop this drift, and I’m unfortunately left with near zero confidence that by the time my children are adults those same churches (if they still exist) will be conservative and traditional, on the contrary you can expect female pastors advocating for abortions at all of them, causing yet another schism of conservative reformed somewhere else, leaving the most unholy congregations in their wake.
It pains me to say it but it’s clearly a pattern of bad fruit, and I’m left with trad versions of Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholicism, humbling myself as it were to churches with apostolic succession (where the gates of hell have not prevailed).
For a knuckledragging catholic can you explain the reformed/unreformed distinction?
Unreformed have completely divorced from Scripture. They're making it up as they go. It's like spiritual self help. A lot looks overtly demonic. Protestants should take shelter in reformed churches or bail entirely to the old churches (Catholicism in the West, Orthodox in the East).
Rains before it pours.
How does one identify a reformed church?
It's a royal pain, sir.
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