I won't say that my period of discernment is over, but I'm leaning heavily twords remaining in the UCC right now, for several reasons:
1. I have found a friend IRL who agrees with me about eroding standards of faith in the UCC.
2. God put me in the way of the UCC and called me to join Zion UCC. Therefore I should stay.
3. I would find it impossible to obey an unjust bishop.
4. Congregationalism is Biblical- I can accept that now, and the parts of the Bible that seem to be anti-congregational are the Pastoral Epistles, which are not really Pauline.
5. Most UCCs big enough to have two services have weekly communion at the early service.
6. Some UCCs do use the Creeds or the UCC Statement of Faith, and I can introduce them in churches once I am a UCC minister.