I've attended a high C of E church for the last 5 years, getting involved in various events and weekly duties. Just over a year ago we got a new vicar. First of all things seemed great, he came from a much larger church and brought parishioners with him, made one of the services more modern and family friendly on the surface and was very much about activism in the local community. I was very happy to see the church expand and flourish. I started getting some alarm bells around his sermons, very much the "we are all sinful and don't deserve God's love" message every week and I thought it would be off putting to first time attendees, but just put it down to the vicar's sermon style. Then during a small group bible study he started telling us about how double predestination is biblically sound and how he knew he was one of God's chosen saved as he was a true Christian. For the uinitiated double predestination is the idea that before the world begun God decided whether you were going to heaven or hell and whatever you do in this life can not change your final destination. I hate this theory, it is utterly repellent to me. I raised with him the problems with it around free will, God's love etc and I was just told to pray about it. I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this change in their church and what they did? My feeling is to withdraw and find somewhere else as I'm so repelled but my local options are limited.