Why is it so hard to participate in a worship service that is different from my background and what I am used to? Does anyone else struggle with criticizing every little facet of a service?

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Victor Stutzman
Mdiv student RTS Orlando
Looking for a church in Canada
London, Ontario Canada

"Oh what an abundant harvest may soon be reaped here! The fields are white and so extensive around us, but the laborers are few. I do thank God He has given me such opportunities"
-Hudson Taylor speaking of opportunites in Ning-Po

Are your criticisms based on your own traditions or Scripture?

I struggle with it as well. Some of my criticisms are based on scripture, but others aren't.

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Scott Roper
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA): "A bunch of hippie Calvinists"
Winston-Salem, NC

I would say that some of my usual criticisms are based on scripture, but that only seems multiply the number of unwarranted criticisms that surface because of my preferences.

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Victor Stutzman
Mdiv student RTS Orlando
Looking for a church in Canada
London, Ontario Canada

"Oh what an abundant harvest may soon be reaped here! The fields are white and so extensive around us, but the laborers are few. I do thank God He has given me such opportunities"
-Hudson Taylor speaking of opportunites in Ning-Po