I am most frustrated with Sundays. I study the Word all week, listen to different sermons from good Bible teaching pastors, and then I come to church on Sunday, and all I hear from my pastor is fluff. We are going through the book "Soul Shift" and today we heard about the chapter "from slave to child." The focus of the message was on changing our thinking about our approaching God from being a "slave" to being a child. We need to change how we approach God, we need to throw off the shackles of slavehood. There were so many opportunities for my pastor to preach the Gospel, to tell us how to become children of God, but he said nothing about that, nothing about repentance and the forgiveness of sins, nothing about the death and resurrection of Jesus. He said that God's ultimate goal is to bring us into relationship with Him. NO! God's ultimate goal is to bring people to salvation! No one who was unsaved in that congregation would really know how to be saved from this sermon.

The entire time I sit in church I cringe and want to crawl out of my skin. The tension builds up inside me, and I have no way to let it out. My husband is there with me, so I "complain" to him, but even though I know he is saved, he is functionally Biblically illiterate, and he has no idea what I am saying. He gets frustrated when I complain, so he says that we should go to the church that he grew up in. But that church is no better. I so much want to find a true Bible preaching church, but I don't know where to look. I have discussed this with my Sunday School teacher, but he has told me that I am being too hard on my pastor. But am I? Shouldn't the pastor know that he needs to preach the Gospel? I honestly only remember one sermon that truly presented the Gospel in the whole 2 years that he has been in our church.

Sorry for the rant. I feel this way every Sunday after church, and I don't know what to do. I have tried to bring up my concerns to my pastor before, but I have been dismissed. As I am learning more, the more dissatisfied I am with my church. But I don't know of anywhere else to go.