Protestant who found orthodoxy, my wife and I have gone to a few services at a small OCA and one larger Greek Orthodox Church. I’m finding it hard to adjust. Coming from a Protestant background where we sing and follow a heavy sermon, standing in Devine liturgy service feels like I’m watching a ritual but not participating at all. Further the use of other languages and the chanting of everything makes it very hard to understand an follow. The short sermons have also been somewhat disappointing coming from churches where Bible is dissected and learning is occurring. Is this happening somehow outside of the service? I even went to vespers and orthos services and felt kind of the same. I also don’t understand why there aren’t more fully English services. So many ethnic churches how does the Orthodox Church expect to pull in non ethics into the churches like this?
Advice? What am I missing here. My wife is not sure she wants to go back anymore.