"When I enter a church, what is my object?...I go there to hear of the blood which cleanseth from all sin; of the one Priest who has entered heaven for me; of a pardon which takes me just as I am - bowed down under a consciousness of confessed and lamented sin - and gives me the blessed assurance of a perfect righteousness, in which I shall stand faultless before him who charges his angels with folly, and in whose sight the heavens are not clean. I want a preacher who points me to 'the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world'; who speaks peace to my troubled conscience; who dispels those fears which daily defects and conscious weakness inspire; by the promise of the Holy Spirit."
                                                                                                 --Richard Fuller

As i've been getting involved in my new church home, i've been considering what it is that makes a church experience valid? what am i looking for? community...yes. but what makes one church full of friendly people different from another church full of friendly people? this quote pretty much sums up how i've been feeling.