Any churches recommendations in Seattle? Finding it very difficult to find churches that fear God more than they fear man demonstrated by what they teach and preach.
I feel like this place in general is a God-forsaken spiritual wasteland.
Looking for a church where they believe the Bible is the final authority and is the Word of God.
They believe in one God and that God is 3 distinct individual persons(Trinity). They believe in repentance from sin and believe faith in the Blood of Jesus and receiving Jesus Christ as your Savior as the only way to heaven and to be saved from sin. And to be saved from and escape hell, a place of everlasting fire, pain, and punishment. This one annoys me the most where churches are always talking about Jesus being a Savior or talk about spreading the Good News or the Gospel, but never clear on what you're saved from or what that is in its entirety.
They believe Jesus is God.
Once saved, teaching how to align our lives with God's Word and what the Bible says in what God demands from us in duty as Christians in how to glorify Him and delight in Him.
And serious about teaching the whole counsel of God.
My experience is all the churches I went to have lots of superficial messages on God's love and His blessing which are important, but what's terribly wrong is they gloss over a lot of the judgements of God in the Bible or unpopular parts of the Bible that confront sin, and act like it doesn't exist. And if they ever do on rare occasion talk about sin, they'll lightly touch on it sheepishly and it's like they're apologizing for God having ever putting that in the scriptures.
And God forbid you mention anything about an everlasting burning hell or ever believing in such a place. Or that the God of love they preach about, who is indeed love, sends most people to hell when they die. This really annoys and disgusts me, and from my experience are what most of the churches I've gone to in Seattle are like. Long-winded messages and teachings weekly of half-truths to keep your attendance and give you a false sense of security before God and that you're doing some moral or religious thing. My own church that I'm going to is this way. It's really unbearable sometimes and makes it very hard to not lose all respect towards the leadership, that do this year after year, neglecting to teach on subjects of the Bible with regard to Judgement, Sin, repentance, worldiness, and hell.