If you're a churchgoer, unless you've gone to the same church your whole life, you've been in this boat. Maybe you've moved, or just had a falling-out with your old church, but for whatever reason, you're looking for a new church home. So you visit different places every Sunday, trying on churches like you would a prom dress, looking for that "perfect fit". A lucky few find that right place right away, maybe in the first month of searching.
A few less lucky (or just pickier) people do like me, and half a decade passes before you join anywhere for good.
For the most part, I'm very glad for how things worked out. I love my church and feel lucky to have found it. But I don't think I should have spent 5 years barely going anywhere because nowhere was "juuust right".
Here's some of the reasons, good, and not so good, why myself and others cross prospective churches off our lists:
