Lost

When you take Geography at school, you learn about how populations migrate and grow and shrink and change. One of the concepts they teach you is "push and pull factors". What are the things that 'push' you away from where you are and what are the things that 'pull' you in a new direction?

I went to a church last week, hoping to find a possible new spiritual home in the area I have recently moved to. The message I got was that their church is the right place to be, because somebody else's is not right??? Huh??? 'Come to us, because the place where you were is bad.' So they're leaning heavily on the 'push' factors, hoping that where I had been would have been bad enough to push me away towards them.What I failed to get was, what was so great about them? Why would somebody from my old church "go to Hell" (their words)?

I watched a DVD from another church. Same faith, same message (supposedly). All I could hear was, "Come and feel the welcome and the love that our family has to offer. We don't have all the answers, but we have love and comfort and we take care of people, even when they don't agree with us. Here you will find friends."

Sadly, the church in the DVD is in another country, soo... I can't go there today...

The question I want to ask, though, is, "Where to from here?"