Danielle,
Just remember that should you switch denominations, you should be aware of a few things that seem to have been overlooked so far. (Not that you haven't thought about them but they could make things a bit more difficult for you if you haven't yet)
Remember going through a different denomination will have some draw bakes depending on how divergent from each other the doctrines that the 2 teach. (IE you will need to deal with differences between how they view baptism imersion as opposed to sprinkling, literal verses a more allegorical rendering of scripture, whether they are KJV only or another version only. Non trinitarian,binitarian or trinitarian. Replacement, covenant or dispensation theology. Reformed verses armenian. Scarements as opposed to symbolic. ETC) If you are NOT close in agreement with the doctrines they teach, you are going to have one hard time of it. Remember they all claim to have the truth out of the same book with totally different interpretations. (What a mess men have made of it)
I love this one
Acts 4
Acts 4 New International Version (NIV)
Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin
4 The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. 2 They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. 4 But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.
5 The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest's family. 7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: "By what power or what name did you do this?"
8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 Jesus is
"'the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the cornerstone.'[a]
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved."
13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. 14 But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say. 15 So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin and then conferred together. 16 "What are we going to do with these men?" they asked. "Everyone living in Jerusalem knows they have performed a notable sign, and we cannot deny it. 17 But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them to speak no longer to anyone in this name."
Lets see the so called uneducated fishermen teaching the so called educated religious leaders and the thing they noted was that Peter and John had been with Jesus.
