T.M.I.

Check out a cool survey on what denominations line up with your beliefs. If you're not affiliated or not sure if the denomination you are a part of agrees with your beliefs, this will provide some unscientific insight. It's a great survey but their HTML code is horrible and I am too lazy to fix it, so I'm just going to list my top 6:

1. Seventh-Day Adventist
2. Assemblies of God
3. Mennonite Brethren
4. Free Will Baptist
5. Methodist/Wesleyan Church
6. Orthodox Quakerism
   

An interesting mix, if I do say so myself. It hammers home to me that no denomination has all the answers, and if you are close-minded enough to think that a denomination is invalid because they don't line up with you 100%. For example, I was shocked to see the 7th day as my no.1. I have never held that Saturday or Sunday is the required day to attend church, and I definitely do not agree with the teachings of their founder; but apparently we do have some common ground. Or it could be the unscientific nature of the poll: one question was about the day of worship, and I chose the option that I didn't believe Sunday was the only day; I think that question heavily favored in scoring for 7th day adventist. I took it 3 times and got the same result, even with a little variation in how I answered.

I then found a Christian Tradition poll from the same site, and got a slightly different result:

1. Baptist (Reformed/Calvinistic)
   
2. Pentecostal/Charismatic/Assemblies of God
3. Methodist/Wesleyan/Nazarene
4. Anabaptist (Quaker/Mennonite)
5. Baptist (Non-Calvinistic/Fundamentalist)
6. Lutheran

See? I really think that one question changed the whole thing. This poll had no question about the day of worship and in this one, 7th day slips from 1 to 7. Hmm. The second is more in line with my background and thought process, although I didn't know there was such a thing as Calvinistic Baptists.

Now I know why I avoid polls most of the time.....