There was no grand "I'm not going to church anymore!" moment. We just quit going.
We attended Cross Point Community Church for a little over two months after coming to Nashville as newly-weds. Cross Point is a good church. The pastor, Pete Wilson, is an excellent speaker. His sermons are thought-provoking, intellectually rich, and contain lots to chew on throughout the week. The church is debt free and works hard to serve and impact the community. It was the best protestant church I'd ever attended.
But it still felt incomplete. We had joined an amazing Community Group (which we are still blessed to be a part of), but weekly church was still a chore, a burden, an obligation; to be quite honest, church was a pain, and we eventually just slipped out of the routine.
I used to feel guilty for the way we just quit going, and the excuses we made for why we weren't going to church anymore; while our excuses may have been less-than-adequate, I can now see (and be forever thankful) that God placed that dissatisfaction in us so that we might search for the fullness that we have found in the Orthodox Church.
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