How Baptist is too Baptist???

It was really strange a few weeks ago to fill out a form and leave the "home church" line blank.  We thought we might be able to just skip church for a few weeks, but that's too foreign.  God works in many ways, but HE especially moves through HIS church.  So today we found ourselves trying out a new church.

As a recovering Baptist, trying out new churches brings to mind a lot of questions, such as:

• What do they believe?
• What's the worship style?
• How do they care for the kids?
• How Baptist are they?

That last one's a kicker.  I've already had a lot of people tell me that such and such a church isn't like other SBC churches.  It's much more contemporary, etc.  Or maybe a church will skirt the issue by saying that they're non-denominational and shouldn't be confused with the Baptists.  Nice try!

Over the next few posts I'm going to break down some of the different aspects of what it means to be Baptist and what concerns me about that.

The interesting thing will be to see what God does.  When I left the SBC and found myself at a PCA church I went with the attitude that I would yield to the authorities that God placed over me and learn their theology.  So regardless of what I now hold as God-given facts, I may find myself in a church that believes somewhat differently from what I do now.  But it will be somewhat awkward to continue to post on this blog if HE takes me back to a SBC church.