it’s a wonderful thing being married to someone smarter than me. As I was putting together the retrospective post before this one (the first one I’ve done in a couple months), I was pointed again to a post my wife put up nearly two years ago now, addressed to some dechurched bloggers we’d gotten to know online, asking them, “What would it take for you to give us a chance?” It’s a wonderful post, as Sara really lays out well our desire for our little church to be a congregation that’s wide open to the reality of each other, in all our messiness and all our struggles and all our darkness as well as all our strengths and triumphs—and thus, as a consequence, wide open to whatever Jesus might want to do in and with and through each of us, and all of us together. I thought she was right on then, and I’m only more convinced of it now.
I followed the link and read what your wife had to say. She IS smart. 🙂
I am a churchgoer, and I am very active in the church. I love the work and the fellowship.
But the thing is, the intimacy that I love and crave is found here, in blogging and in internet friendships, because many of the church just aren't trustworthy. It's much safer to put everybody into the appropriate cubbyhole and visit that spot as the time/need arises.
I wish it were different, but I'm nearly 50 and tired of being hurt. So they can have the best of the outside of me, and I'll just save the inside for Jesus and my little group of web confidantes. And you know, it works, somehow. 🙂
But I agree. It's not the way it should be.
That's sad.
lol. Sad? Just how it is. I didn't mean to be a downer.
Didn't say you're a downer; but that that's how it is, is a sad thing.