New Church

Some of you have asked me if we've found a church yet after moving back to Texas. After searching for months we finally found a church home. New Heights Baptist Church is in Wylie and is about 10 mintues from where we live. (if you're interested their website is www.nhbcwylie.com) I'm so excited about it because we have been praying for God to lead us to the church He wants us to attend and raise our kids in and after visiting this one a few times along with many others, God kept bringing us back to this church and now we have such a peace and excitement about it. Unfortunately, we kept running into the same type of church everytime we would visit one. Most of them were "seeker sensitive" churches. If you want a full description on this you can read up on it at http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Mar05/Art_Mar05_oped1.html. My short definition is this....it's a big church movement that is becoming more and more popular where these churches have a philosophy of bringing as many unsaved people into their church as possible by making it seem entertaining, non-threatening, etc....by using technology, lights, big bands, loud music, watered down sermons, self-help sermons rather than really studying the scriptures all in the hopes that these unaved people will become saved. Needless to say, this is not what we're looking for and not a place where we would grow, not to mention it's unbiblical. The pastor of this church we are attending, his name is Steve Foster, reminds us a lot of the famous late Pastor Adrian Rogers. He's very dynamic and tells it like it is. We have always left feeling convicted but also encouraged in our faith. This church is on the small side so our only concern was that they might not have enough things for our kids to get involved in. But we figured they can go to AWANA at another church on Wednesdays and there are some things they do with the kids, just not as much as we were used to at our last church. Well, anyway, I'll quit rambling. But I'm so grateful we found a church home and that it's so close too! I love it when we seek God's will and He is always faithful in guiding you to it.