Greetings.
My wife and I live in the south. We have tried many Baptist churchs and have become disillusioned by what we see are the five types of Baptists: (a) Calvinists, who we cannot agree with; (b) dispensationalists (Ruckmanites); (c) emotional types that use yelling/crying as substitutes for belief or, at the very least, to amplify their minimal amounts of same; (d) the cult-esque types (Hyles, Andersonites, etc.) that worship men more than God; and (e) the dead churches that just don't believe anything anymore and are overly worldly. We tried (d), but found them to be hate-filled groups full of cliques and self-righteousness, as well as a very obvious lack of brotherly love. As for (c) and (e), which tend to overlap, most of these are run by Pastors who allow their wives to work, have no trouble with TV/Disney, and are just fine sending their girls off to college to be brainwashed with worldiness/feminism. Ironically, it is (a) and (b) that tend to have the most people that truly even TRY to live the Bible. So you have a choice between the competing poisions of false doctrine, man-worship, and world-worship.
We are relatively new to being Baptists, but cannot help but see churches today that are just plain frauds. We are KJV believers just looking to find other people who feel the same way and want to live right. Not for salvation, obviously. But to give our kids the best chance.
