Having never had to choose a church to attend before, I have now come to the conclusion that I hate church shopping. Its too bad they only meet once a week because its hard to decide if that’s the one for you from only Sunday School and the service. I feel like I have to throw myself into service and attendance with a church before I will know if that is the right one.

 My first Sunday I went to a “Cowboy church.” It was nice, but far away and not really what I was looking for in church setup (not to mention repeated too few praise choruses too many times) so I know I wouldn’t be back there.

 Last Sunday I went to a local Baptist church which had been recommended by a prof at the school. I went to Sunday School (yay) and it was pretty good. The singles group was a pretty good size and they were nice, if a little older than me it seemed. The church service was fine, again, very nice people, but the minister of music was waaay to dramatic. We sang “When I survey” but in between each verse (minor key the whole way through) he gave this little scriped talk while accompanied by music. I feel it definitely merits a second chance to see if that was normal or just special for that Sunday. I believe they do meet and a church on Sunday night for a Bible study, but I’m not sure if the singles do. Another hard part about that church is they do an early “contemporary” service (which I disagree with for so many different reasons) and a later “traditional” service. Most of the singles go to the early service, so that rules out me hanging out with them.

One cool observation was a guy dressed up in neatly starched and ironed white dress shirt, dress pants, and scuffed cowboy boots. I just thought it was cute. He dresses up for God’s house, but these are his real, working-man boots, not just the shiny ones he wears for special occasions. It would have ruined it if he had been wearing jeans; the dress-up and then the dirty boots were just (as my roommate would say) precious J.