"So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore" - legitimate or illegitimate to leave the church?
I've entitled this blog post after the name of a fairly well-known Christian book written by Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman that came out back in 2008. I listened to Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings for several years when they were doing "The God Journey" podcast together. At the time I was listening to the podcast, I heard a lot of reasons that people were leaving churches. I heard about different levels of abuse and control and manipulation. A lot more of these dynamics are coming to light and clearly the Lord is doing something across the Body of Christ to expose and reveal a lot of unhealthy dynamics in churches and ministries. For reasons I've detailed elsewhere, the Lord led my wife and I clearly in the direction of house (or house-sized) churches which we had been leading for many years, and are now almost exclusively focusing on energy on. "Houses of Fire - A Strategy to Bring in the Harvest" - LINK "Houses of Fire (a.k.a. House Churches) i