in light of all this, there is an aching need to gather, regardless, and practice things that actually are important and clearly needed

the church that I was baptised in was one of these "non-demoninational" types, the Church of Christ, who had almost no intrinsic doctrines aside from what is obvious in the text

i'm curious to know how the smaller, anti-doctrinal churches stack up against these criteria, and trying to position myself in the future to be a congregant 

 IMO, the nondenoms are failing miserably. The first thing we all need is a solid education in what the bible says, and where it comes from. Self study is ridiculously difficult. I'll give credit to the political church, both of them, for doing a much better job of structuring and maintaining spiritual curricula. 

I don't agree with their dogma, but I might actually just go to learn. 

 indeed, i'm getting the gist of that but i definitely am not going to a Catholic church, the idolatry is too offensive to me

so, yeah, good point, probably best to just see what's around near where i find myself and try them out, and go with what the spirit tells 

 Yeah, the idolatry... So much idolatry. Its more than the statues for the Catholics and the bad art of the Orthodox - giving authority to {anything} is idolatry. 

When it comes to teaching, the big unsaid question is - how do you evoke the knife's edge of rationality, such that it leads to faith?

And I always point out that faith isn't belief. Those two words lead in different directions.