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I'm still tryin' to help ALAYBOY to find some connection to church through his freshman college assimilation. We had went to the campus church together as a family a couple of months ago that was filled to the brim with college-age people equally seeking and trying to find themselves in this transitional phase of life. I reported on that through another thread at the time, noting that he didn't like the contemporary music (which wasn't anything that I had done to influence his views.... he is FAR from someone who only listens to sacred music/hymns in his personal life). The Reformed Baptist Church we attended this past weekend was culturally and theologically more conservative (which I don't think ALAYBOY cares about one way or another), but the music was almost equally "contemporary" as the UC Campus church. The Reformed Baptist church was certainly cut from a specific demographic cloth (namely young families, as there was only one couple there that was about my age or older in a congregation of 100+). It had numerous trappings of what I expected from a reformed church; sovereignty emphasized, liturgical, singing the Psalms, etc. In addition to those expectations however, yet not really unpredictable at all, the entire sermon was crafted around a the subject we have been discussing here on the FFF quite a bit lately (as I'm sure is the case in MANY evangelical/fundamental corners of Christendom).... that being the nature of the relationship of current events in Israel as relating to the Church and prophesy. Of course I got an earful of anti-premillenial theology... but the pastor handled himself with delicate appropriateness towards the enemy amongst them and I was able to hold my tongue long enough to not be shown the door , but I can at least say that I witnessed 1st-hand the anti-semitism from amillenialists rather than just via the cyberspace of keyboards, lol. J/K...don't taze me bros!