Stick with those guys and with Sunday mornings. There is value in both and you need both for editing*.

One of the things that I have been learning over the past few weeks as we have been attending a liturgical worship gathering is how much Sunday mornings really are consumer or personality driven. One of the beauties of liturgical worship is that there are no personalities. The whole day is built around proceeding to the Eucharist. The gathering is about Christ and the church; not about how good someone looks, sings or teaches. All of that little rant to say…I have felt what you are expressing in the past, several times. The trick seems to be for me to keep worship about worship – to worship Jesus and not the gathering or it’s artists.

So the group is for learning, serving, growing, sharing, etc.
Sunday’s are to gather with like minded people to focus on Jesus…nothing else, thus they both have value.

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*I like the word editing better than accountability.
Accountability is an accounting word which suggests your getting something to the bottom line.
Editing (think book editing)…the editor takes the material and tries to make it the best it can be.
So, I think communities like yours are really for editing, to make each of you all you were created to be.

I have compassion for Judas and for them – plus a lot of other people as well. If you had been here over the past few weeks as I’ve talked to the missionaries that keep coming by my house you would know this. Just because I write a tongue & cheek post about something or someone doesn’t mean I have hatred toward them. I’ poke fun at a lot of things/people and I have no problem when people do it to me. All of that to say, I no more hate Mormons than I do say fundamentalist TV/Internet preachers or people who completely misread Genesis by not honoring the context…groups I often joke about. I just think they are wrong.

Also, Are you saying Mormons are Christians? If so, we would disagree here. Early on in the Christian story at Nicea a council set forth what is in and out of bounds for orthodox Christian belief. Thus the Nicene Creed. Mormonism is not in bounds.

Not sure what you mean with the evolution line so I won’t address it and 1 Timothy 4/5 covers a lot of ground & is kind of general so I’m not sure about that one as well.