Looking for advice on possibly becoming Baptist
Hi all,
I (early 30s) was raised pretty non religious, but would go to a reformed church of America occasionally with my father. I was not baptized as an infant or child.
As a young adult I wasn’t really religious but tried different churches here and there and always thought I wanted to get baptized. If I didn’t know what else I believed, I knew I thought that was important.
Fast forward to about a year or so ago. I move to a new town and decide now is the time to get more serious about my faith and find a church and get baptized. I read the bible cover to cover and I tried out all different kinds of church’s: catholic, non denom, Presbyterian, Methodist. I wanted to go to a Baptist church because in my mind getting baptized is by immersion and I’ve just always like the idea of that way over sprinkling. But at the time I didn’t drive so had no way to get to a Baptist church in the area and settled on Methodist as that was the most like the church I went to growing up.
After attending for a few months I become a member and am baptized by sprinkling.
But… now something doesn’t feel right to me. I’m not sure the Methodist church is the place for me. I still feel this little feeling within me that I am meant to be Baptist.
I still struggle with what I believe beyond the basics of there is a God and Jesus is his son who died for our sins. But I take the Bible seriously and sometimes I feel this church doesn’t. They frequently do readings from The Message version during services and that was the version they gifted me on the day I became a member. And sometimes services feel like a community club with a short message about God added on, though there is prayer and traditional hymns throughout.
The people are good kind people who do charitable work to help the community, I don’t think they have bad intentions at all it just feels… unserious sometimes. Like I need something more.
I’m thinking of visiting a Baptist church near me. In their services posted online they have a male pastor who goes over a few verses line by line each sermon. And then the next week picks up where they left off. Does anyone have any advice about transitioning from United Methodist to Baptist? Could it be a good fit for me or am I just being nit picky and should be content where I am?