Find a Church that follows the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a Bible based church
A church/religion is important, you may need to visit more than one church, to find the right one.
Teaching from the Bible, will guide the church in these matters:
- the Bible says, no statues, Exodus chapter 20:4
- only worship, praise and pray to God/Jesus/Holy Spirit
(Revelation 22:8-9) (not Mary, a saint or an angel)
- no baptism of babies, why? they can't choose Jesus,
see baptism
- The Bible has instruction for man and leaders of religion.
If the religious message is not from the Bible, then
it's of man and not God. All named religions are man's
creations, and not all follow the Word of God, the Bible.
- the church should not get between you and God, Jesus is the mediator between man and God. Jesus died on the cross, for the forgiveness of all sins. (a priest in a confessional can't wash away sins, only the blood of Jesus)
- no memorized prayers, there is a model prayer, prayers should come from your heart.
- Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. James 1:27
Follow Jesus
At the end of a church service, there is likely an opportunity to make public, your decision to follow Jesus Christ.
“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 10:32