Staying within this one evangelical church is both advantageous and disadvantageous to developing a theological framework. As I remember, the word theology never came up as the church was more interested in how to apply Biblical standards to every day life. One year of high school Sunday School focused on the Evangelical Free Churches of America's Statement of Faith but we only focused on how to apply those theological statements to our lives and not how they came to be or why they mattered. Looking back over this time, the main thing that I notice is the emphasis on the individual and not the community.
