"So, You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore" - legitimate or illegitimate to leave the church altogether?
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, 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 many 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. I've written about our journey in these blog posts: "Houses of Fire - A Strategy to Bring in the Harvest" - LINK "H...