I need help finding a church home?

Question

Im a Christian from Chicago, IL and I need a spiritual covering. What should I look for or focus on, in finding a church home?

Answer 1

I would pray and ask the Lord to lead me to a church, once you are there I would just make sure that they are rightly dividing the word of God and not just hung up on one or two doctrines.

Example: United Pentecostal always want to talk about being baptized in Jesus name and speaking in tongues and that pretty much all they want to talk about.

Make sure they preach the word stay away from what is called 'WORD OF FAITH' churches they are a little out there.

Assembly of God, Church of God, Cleveland Tennessee these could be places to start, but even have to be careful there to cause it depends on the Pastor.

Answer 2

Just go to churches until you feel at home. For many years I could never find a denomination in Christianity that suited me and my beliefs. Recently the Lord led me to the Catholic Church and I feel so at home and with in the Body of Christ. Makes me wonder why I never went before. But the Lord has led me to where He wants me. And I will be baptized Easter 2008. May God lead you to where He wants you to be God Bless.

Answer 3

When I found the church I am in, and have been for 12 years, I knew that God placed me there and it is there that I have grown, been dealt with, matured and serve with all of my heart. You will know if a church is for you by going and asking God for some sort of confirmation,
then looking for leaders who walk in integrity and preach, train and teach the Word. A place that allows God to be God without so many agendas that the Holy Spirit has no room to move. In a perfect world this would be all churches, but its not, please expect God to fulfill His purpose in your life, you are worth it!

Answer 4

What Church? Scripture reveals this Church to be the one Jesus Christ built upon the rock of Saint Peter (Matt. 16:18). By giving Peter the keys of authority (Matt. 16:19), Jesus appointed Peter as the chief steward over His earthly kingdom (cf. Isaiah. 22:19-22). Jesus also charged Peter to be the source of strength for the rest of the apostles (Luke 22:32) and the earthly shepherd of Jesus' flock (John 21:15-17). Jesus further gave Peter, and the apostles and elders in union with him, the power to bind and loose in heaven what they bound and loosed on earth. (Matt. 16:19; 18:18). This teaching authority did not die with Peter and the apostles, but was transferred to future bishops through the laying on of hands (e.g., Acts 1:20; 6:6; 13:3; 8:18; 9:17; 1 Tim. 4:14; 5:22; 2 Tim. 1:6).

"This is the sole Church of Christ, which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic." These four characteristics, inseparably linked with each other, indicate essential features of the Church and her mission. The Church does not possess them of herself; it is Christ who, through the Holy Spirit, makes his Church one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, and it is he who calls her to realize each of these qualities.

Only faith can recognize that the Church possesses these properties from her divine source. But their historical manifestations are signs that also speak clearly to human reason. As the First Vatican Council noted, the "Church herself, with her marvelous propagation, eminent holiness, and inexhaustible fruitfulness in everything good, her catholic unity and invincible stability, is a great and perpetual motive of credibility and an irrefutable witness of her divine mission."

Answer 5

Find an Assemblies of God church, we are the most biblical church in existence.

Answer 6

good luck here Buddy, your going to get a list of every church there is, and u will just was your time, take your time, look around yourself, every Sunday go to a different church till u find one that makes u happy.