Christian church finder

A church where you belong, not just one nearby.

The sign said the right word and you were still out of place. Rate a few plain statements about what you believe, then read where a church agrees with you and where it does not, before you spend a dozen Sundays finding out.

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One road. Five stops. The last one is a door.

Where you stand
Side by side
Where the families split
How each one is marked
The door you try first

Or open the tradition tree first Or see churches near you first

Stop 1 of 5Where you stand

Move one slider and the answer moves with it.

What you believe

From the free quiz

A person who is genuinely saved can never lose their salvation ("once saved, always saved").Strongly disagreeStrongly agreeNot answered yetMove it, and this area sorts itself
Christ is truly and really present in the bread and wine of the Supper, not merely symbolized.Strongly disagreeStrongly agreeNot answered yet

Not sure? Leave it where it is. An unrated statement counts neither way.

Where that puts you

86of 279 still fit in this example

86at or above 70%
120under 70%
73nothing recorded yet

Example area: 6 miles around central Phoenix. Your own search uses where you are.

An example: agree with the first statement, and 86 of 279 here still fit. Your first move replaces it.

An example. Your first move replaces it.

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Free and anonymous. The quiz picks up where you stop.

Stop 2 of 5Side by side

Same name over the door, and you are still the one out of place.

Presbyterian Church (USA) and Presbyterian Church in America sit on the same branch of the same tree. Of the statements both address, they land apart on 100 of 995.

Alike on most of it, and not evenly: where they part they part hard, and the furthest apart is sexuality & marriage, which is the kind of thing that decides whether you can stay.

Scored by the same engine as the comparison page.

Compare two traditions Open this one in full Or skip ahead to churches near you

Stop 3 of 5Where the families split

Christianity did not split once. The parts have gone on splitting.

Over 175,000 churches matched to what their tradition teaches. Not every church we list is described in this detail. The ones that are not described say so on their own page.

Every tradition sits on one tree, and a denomination is one of its families. Open the one you were raised in, or the one you keep ending up outside of, and read the positions it holds, statement by statement.

A tile opens that tradition, not the congregation in the photograph. Sanctuary photographs from Wikimedia Commons under their respective licenses. Full credits.

Open the tradition tree Or see churches near you from these families

Stop 4 of 5How each one is marked

Congregations near you, and where each position came from.

Open a church and every position it holds carries a mark saying where it came from, so you can see which words are the congregation's own.

See churches near you Or see the tradition tree behind each mark

Tradition defaultThe tradition's position, not this congregation's own.
Estimated from their statement of faithDrawn from their own published words. Our estimate, not their confirmation.
Estimated, source not recordedAn estimate whose source we did not write down. No document on file.

Most positions today come from the tradition.

Stop 5 of 5The door you try first

What is on the other side is a church you can read before you visit.

Whether you walk through it is yours to decide. Start with what you believe.

See churches that fit Go straight to churches near you How the road works, step by step

Agreement and difference, line by line.Where a position came from is shown on that church's own page.
No church can pay to rank higher.We describe what a tradition teaches, statement by statement, and placement is never for sale.
At your pace.Stop whenever you want. Every answer sharpens the picture.

Or skip the road and open a place directly.

Every state has a page of its own, and so do 5,691 cities. A town gets its own page once five congregations there name it as their city and state, so not every town is listed. The finder searches from wherever you are.

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The next church you try does not have to be a guess.