{"id":2051,"date":"2012-01-15T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2012-01-17T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T17:20:08","slug":"church-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"church history"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: rest day]<\/p>\n

I was sitting in church this morning and lit upon this idea of doing a blog post about the churches that I have attended.\u00a0 If you don’t like the word church<\/em>, you probably should just skip this one.<\/p>\n

During my early years I was taken to Grandview Park Baptist Church<\/a>\u00a0 (GARBC) for three sermons a week.\u00a0 My paternal grandparents also attended that church. When I was in elementary school I came to the conclusion that this preaching about sin and forgiveness applied to me as much or more than anybody. [I still think so.] \u00a0 I was baptised by pastor\u00a0 Harold Scholes.\u00a0 Later on I attended middleschool and highschool years at the GPBS school and eventually graduated from there.\u00a0 The pastor during that time was Dr. Paul Tassell.<\/p>\n

I attended college for a year in Arkansas.\u00a0 During that time I attended various churches in NW Arkansas, mainly a small E-Free church (I don’t remember in what town).<\/p>\n

Then I went to Iowa State in Ames.\u00a0 It was really the first time that I had to decide if I wanted to get up and go to church on Sunday morning when most people slept in.\u00a0 I attended Campus Baptist Church<\/a> (GARBC) in the old building near the ISU campus.\u00a0 The pastor was Charles Alber.<\/p>\n

After finishing college and getting married I was in Chicago.\u00a0 For a few months we attended a little church on Diversey street east of the Brickyard Mall. Now it is called the Brickyard Bible Church<\/a>. The pastor at that time was Nick Troupus.\u00a0 We then moved out to the suburbs and we attended Fox Valley Baptist Church<\/a> with pastor Doug Compton.<\/p>\n

We moved back to Des Moines and attended Fellowship Baptist Church where Bob Renaud was pastor, then Jeff Holub.<\/p>\n

Then we moved to Estes Park, Colorado and attended Estes Park Baptist Church<\/a> (SBC) under Steve Hammond, then Paul Logue.\u00a0 Later, we moved to Fort Collins and attended First Presbyterian Church<\/a> where the senior pastor is \u00a0Rich McDermott.<\/p>\n

Now we live near Columbus, MS and attend Main Street Presbyterian<\/a> where the senior pastor is David Strain.<\/p>\n

When we lived in Estes Park I was very active in the church operations at EPBC.\u00a0 My wife suffered some medical problems and we didn’t see eye-to-eye on my church responsibilities.\u00a0 That and a few other things led eventually to her attending the Community Church of the Rockies<\/a> while I went to EPBC.\u00a0 That didn’t work out too well.\u00a0 When we moved away from Estes, I just determined to go where she would go.\u00a0 She has good taste in music and knows good preaching so I can’t complain.\u00a0 We don’t completely agree on all doctrinal issues but we’re well within the “margin of error”, so to speak.<\/p>\n

To say just a bit more about that:\u00a0 I think that conservative churches have a tendency to put a lot of pressure on women and wives to act and dress a certain way.\u00a0 It seems to me that my wife felt this pressure and I was not useful in providing relief.\u00a0 It\u00a0 grew to be very discomforting for her.\u00a0 Switching from baptist to presbyterian churches has, I think, relieved\u00a0 some of that discomfort since we both have a bit of “outsiderness” in that environment.\u00a0 Our expectations about our own performance has changed and our level of participation has also relaxed quite a bit. [She probably has a different understanding of what happened.\u00a0 Just FYI.]<\/p>\n

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