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Haha, well, I am told I am always contrary &amp; unfortunately, my experience in the non-denom realm is the exact opposite. My ex-husband &amp; I were on staff at a non-denominational church for several years &amp; frequently had discussions about how Christ himself would not be let in this church because they would be afraid that he would bleed on the carpet. There was a time when my middle son was an infant when I never went to service if I wasn't serving because proper accommodations were simply not made for nursing mothers &amp; I was constantly shooed from the sanctuary for the stupidest of reasons, such as him babbling during the musical portion. This led to an old blog of mine I titled, "The Value of Incoherent Praise." I don't know if this is different elsewhere, but every "non-denom" ministry I have encountered thus far has extreme doctrines which place a lot of guilt on the imperfect, regardless of repentance, and invent prophecies or otherwise make feel unwelcome the "different" sorts (ie: goth). They might say they want the unchurched, but that wore on me, and I finally left at a time when I needed church more than anything as a result.