One of the things that fascinates me is people that are church shopping.  Now, that is very different from church hopping…where people just go to whatever happens to be the hot church in town until they get disenfranchised, then go somewhere else.

But church shopping is legitimate.  You move to a new town, you don’t fit where you grew up, and you are looking for a place to belong.  I always tell everyone I meet, you should look for two things in a church: 1) a place where you can grow in the Word of God–not some psuedo-religious babble; not some legalistic jargon; but a place where the preacher opens the Bible, and his points come from the text–in a desriptor–expository preaching! 2) you should go somewhere you can “plug into” ministry.  Every believer should be involved in a small group Bible study and be involved in some ministry. 

However, I find it interesting what people are looking for.  For example, I found this on a blog of someone complaining they couldn’t find a church:

I prefer good music and straight preaching. I don’t like preachers talking politics from the pulpit and I don’t appreciate listening to a pastor tell me that Buddhists, Muslims and Catholics are going to hell. I want my church to stay out of my business and out of my bedroom.

Needless to say, it’s been hard finding a place to fit in.

My question is this: what does this lady mean by “preaching it straight”?  Because she obviously wants it straight as long as it is straight to somebody else, just doesn’t interfere with the way she lives her life.

The thing is, I think she speaks for a lot of folks.  These are the things that I ponder…