Today was church at RPC. It was with some hesitancy that I agreed to keep going there. Moving to Northern Virginia, I was hoping to find - in short- a "cool" church; one that was liturgical, yet modern, or with a strong social justice mission married to concrete theology. The church we settled on doesn't quite fit in any of those categories. It is a Presbyterian church, about 150 members, that is honest and real in it's teaching, old-school in it's music selections, and with the normal array of middle-schoolers sitting in the back, children crying during the service, and older people who are still very much in love. And we feel normal and welcome there, which is good.
We also are getting plugged in very very quickly with good friends. We are meeting people through-out the church and I feel like we are forming a true community of people who can laugh and play together, while also being honest with struggles, doubts, and disagreements. Today we met with a few other people who are branching out the young-adults group, as it is getting larger. Afterwords we ended up hanging out and watching a football game with a glass of wine. It was tremendously refreshing and I'm glad for it.
It's interesting to begin to find what you are looking for in a place where you least expect to find it, and I'm glad for our normal church.
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