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When I was growing up as a protestant I attended the Montessori Little People's Academie was I five or six years old. It was like preschool and teaching religious education. This was not part of the Episcopialian church,however there was a Episcopian church upstairs. I became fasinated with big ben when I was a child. In 1999,while on a trip to Washington D.C.,
little did I know I stepped into a the washington national cathederal,which is a episcopian church. My dad was a member of the Episcopian church when he was growing up and worked there helping with communion etc. My grandmas dad was a member of the church of england. I got angry at america and how america (the CIA) tried to kill people such as Fidel Castro in the 1960 and 1970s before the government passed a law saying that they couldn't do that anymore, during my high school years. So I had to find a replacement which fell to the british as I studied the british victories during World War I which led to the creation of Iraq and the pro-british monarchy which they propped up no matter how dictatorial or corrupt it was.I was stanchly pro-british at this time.After I got over Iraq, I was also very supportive of Queen Elizabeth II who I saw as queen of England. I asked God where I should live,and God gave me a house that is not to far from the Episcopial church that my dad used to go to. I also liked looking at pictures of England and Scotland. I loved england. If I keep having the episcopial church even though God says I will never become a episcopialian,does that mean I am actually a episcopialian,even through I attend a non-denominational church? 1.My family members were Church of England/Episcopialian members. 2.I had fasination of british objects and studing england and its influences (History and landscapes etc.) 3. I became pro-british and supported queen elizabeth and I didn't like any critism of the queen. 4. I was very connected to britian and england,even today.

There is the Church ... and the church.

The Church is the Body of Christ (1Corinthians 12:12-27) .... this means that every person who is born into the family of God through faith in the Person of Jesus Christ, including trust in the completed work of Christ in His life, death and resurrection; and believing, is indwelt by the Holy Spirit is a child of God (Romans 8), and so a part of the Body of Christ .... and so of the Church.

This means that there are Christians in every Christian church .... as well as those who are not Christians (but perhaps think they are).

So your choice of church should be first of all, one where the Gospel is preached, and believed and lived. After that, your own preferences are ok.

There are some episcopal churches I would not become involved with, and some which are real, living, Christians churches.

in Christ

Dinah

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