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Originally Posted by Michael 61

I can sorta relate to your question - though churches are many here in The Villages, most do not line up with my doctrinal requirements, and many don’t include doctrinally rich hymns in their worship services, but pop-like choruses that are shallow and sound like something you’d hear on the radio. (More entertainment-oriented than reverence worship of God). Also, most churches do not have pastors that preach expositionally (verse-by-verse from the Bible), but more topical and self-help type messages (think Joel Osteen), that refrain from such use of words like “sin” “repentance” “hell” etc.

I found an excellent church (in the John MacArthur vein), in Winter Garden, but the drive is just a bit too far, especially if I want to return for mid-week Bible studies and other weekly church functions. I have attended Faith Presbyterian in Oxford a few times. They are part of the smaller ARP denomination, and not the very liberal Presbyterian- USA. It is a smaller, but conservative congregation. Though I’ve never been a Presbyterian, I line up with this conservative branch of Presbyterianism on all major doctrinal areas, taking issue with a few very minor points of secondary doctrine.

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You seem to have a handle on the more "typical" churches in the V's. Many many churches, but, when we began to visit different ones, found exactly as you described. I do think the move to more contemporary music and services are an attempt to draw back younger people, and probably rightly so as church attendance was abysmal before the "pandemic", and now the number of people who profess no religion at all, is frightening. We became much less denominational when we moved into the V's.