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    How many church moves you have had?

    For whatever reasons whether it be ministry opportunity, doctrinal concerns, didn't like the color of the carpet, etc

    Me? Moved from childhood Baptist church to another Baptist church because they were more "lively"..

    When I lived in Tulsa, went to Non-denom (Carlton Pearson Higher Dimensions) then after all the fallout about his change in doctrine went to an Open Bible church that basically had aligned themselves with the Toronto Outpouring, but hadn't left the Open Bible denom yet (they eventually did so)

    Moved back to Detroit and went to a non-denom church which was a mix of WOF and Chuck Wagner/Elijah List type prophetic

    After being there about 1.5 years went to an inner-city AoG

    After there, a church that was non-denom with WoF leanings, (not associated with Rhema or Copelands, Duplantis, Savelle, Price, or any of that kind) They hosted Avanzini a few times, not so sure they still do, but that was a big turnoff with me.

    Spent less than a year at the same church where Highly Favoured and her hubby goes

    Then went back to the inner city AoG where I was before, was there about eight years

    Then went to a Wesleyan church, that was fairly new to the Detroit area, stayed there for about two years

    Then tried another "new to the area" church not too far from where I live, they are non-denom but not sure who "oversees" then officially or unofficially (Around the time I was visiting, they were trying to get this conference together and the main "selling point" was Carl Lentz as featured speaker, then still pastor of Hillsong NY)

    Now I'm at another Baptist church, a lot of older members but doing well in terms of numbers and ministry outreaches, then the PANDEMIC hits a few months later

    Spent a better part of a year and a half watching online church, we have partially opened back up but now I don't feel too bad at missing a service or more in person even now.

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    We've been Christians since 1985. Changed churches once, from the small home town United Church that was becoming more and more liberal and had started allowing gays in the pulpit, to a PAOC in a larger centre where they had a youth program for our kids. We've been there 31 years.

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    As adult - 9 church moves. Three of those were because we moved cities. One was a small town church that was just rife with something "icky": we ended up driving to a larger city centre to go the PAOC church there.

    Then we moved to the States. We've been here more than 20 years now and were at 3 different churches. We're still at the one FO mentioned - we've been here 14.5 years so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FaithfulOne View Post
    For whatever reasons whether it be ministry opportunity, doctrinal concerns, didn't like the color of the carpet, etc

    Me? Moved from childhood Baptist church to another Baptist church because they were more "lively"..

    When I lived in Tulsa, went to Non-denom (Carlton Pearson Higher Dimensions) then after all the fallout about his change in doctrine went to an Open Bible church that basically had aligned themselves with the Toronto Outpouring, but hadn't left the Open Bible denom yet (they eventually did so)

    Moved back to Detroit and went to a non-denom church which was a mix of WOF and Chuck Wagner/Elijah List type prophetic

    After being there about 1.5 years went to an inner-city AoG

    After there, a church that was non-denom with WoF leanings, (not associated with Rhema or Copelands, Duplantis, Savelle, Price, or any of that kind) They hosted Avanzini a few times, not so sure they still do, but that was a big turnoff with me.

    Spent less than a year at the same church where Highly Favoured and her hubby goes

    Then went back to the inner city AoG where I was before, was there about eight years

    Then went to a Wesleyan church, that was fairly new to the Detroit area, stayed there for about two years

    Then tried another "new to the area" church not too far from where I live, they are non-denom but not sure who "oversees" then officially or unofficially (Around the time I was visiting, they were trying to get this conference together and the main "selling point" was Carl Lentz as featured speaker, then still pastor of Hillsong NY)

    Now I'm at another Baptist church, a lot of older members but doing well in terms of numbers and ministry outreaches, then the PANDEMIC hits a few months later

    Spent a better part of a year and a half watching online church, we have partially opened back up but now I don't feel too bad at missing a service or more in person even now.
    Whatt! LAWD have mercy.

    I've only been in 2 churches. All family connected. No matter where I'm at, my membership, tithe and most giving would go to my home church.

    Some of you charismatics are just flaky

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pentecali View Post

    Some of you charismatics are just flaky
    You tongue talker, you

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    Three as a child, all liberal, all pre-conversion. After conversion in 1967, I think thirteen. Maybe fourteen.

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