We’re not worried; we have lots of time. 
UU gets my vote as well - I almost got married in the UU church…but that is a completely different story.
Please forgive my avoiding reading the rest of the thread: for someone so vocal in favour of Christianity, I’m unusually shy of religion threads. They just often turn into discussions which bounce my heart from here to the moon and back; and that takes too much out of me!
So, listen: I’d like to share a few honest pointers from someone who has genuinely climbed a few steps (enough at least to know I couldn’t climb a single one without Help!).
1, Obviously, I’m in favour in Christianity. In my opinion the Christ pattern is echoed and foreshadowed throughout all of the world’s cultures - but only in Jesus do we actually find it given such clarity, and taken beyond into the eternal.
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*Honestly[/i] ask Christ to reveal Himself. Don’t spend the next three days looking for angels behind every lamppost: ask honestly, then leave it with Him, and BE HONEST about what happens. If he’s real, He can let you know without your having to convince yourself. If something happens that gets through to you, though, feel free to ignore the “coincidence” thing. The great thing is that you may already feel you know Him, when you meet Him.
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As regards churches, all have their pros and cons, but one important thing is a solid fatherly leader you can trust and who is more interested in Christ Himself than in “Christ and…” like, “Christ and Your Finances” or “Christ and your children”, and so forth. As far as I can see there’s no reason why you can’t find a woman to provide the same function.
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If you’re going to walk this path you’re going to meet more lunatics than anywhere else. But be honest with yourself and them, and love everybody. Keep going back to Christ. It’s all about Him.
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You’re going to learn what Love really is, and that’s great! I hope you have the best time anybody ever had, ever. CYA up there!
What does your wife think about this?
If you’re doing this to fulfill a need for the family, you had better be sure that she is on board with you.
How was she raised? Does she believe in (a) God? Does she adamantly not believe in a god? Is she suggesting this search? Opposing it? Does she even know of it?
Did she once belong and “fell away”? Or did she once belong and reject either the particular brand or the general concept of religion?
She could secretly want to get back to her roots or she could dread being sucked into something she had thought she had escaped.
Especially if you are only looking for community, and not God, she had better be a part of this search.
(Or, it you’re the wife, you had better substitute husband for wife in my previous post. You just “sounded” masculine to me.)
A 17-hour sermon??? :eek: No wonder you hated them…