Hi everyone,
So in my continuing quest to find a church which accepts me and provides me some spiritual encouragement every Sunday, i decided to drop the baptists and search elsewhere. I went on the internet and searched for gay friendly churches. We found a Methodist church in Nottingham and we decided to go today.
When we entered, everyone was so welcoming. The church pastors came up to us and shook our hands and one of them hugged us. I was VERY comfortable and i felt happy because these people didnt care at all that we are gay. In fact, Jack recognised many of them from the city gay bars! Wow! So we were accepted. :)
However, the service was not what I expected. Firstly we sang 6 songs and heard about 6 prayers! I thought this was tiring and i was getting agitated and wondering when they were going to start talking about the bible. After the prayers and songs (some of which involed some church members doing some very odd things), the main pastor went up and gave a one hour sermon on a part of the book of Judges which i found tiring. They closed with another 2 songs. :| I have to say I wasnt digging it at all. They sang lots and lots of songs about Jesus and then had an hour long sermon on Judges. :|
I found it quite a shame that we were accepted but the whole service wasnt very hot. I am definately going to give it another shot though because I realy liked them and I can see the true Chrstian love shining out. That made me happy, but in the end, the reason i want to go to a church is to receive spiritual encouragement. Im not interested in the social side of things.
Tim :)