I was answering your questions in my head. Emergency? Hasn’t it always been? It’s not dead, but fewer people attending (including me) and I don’t really miss it (I worked in the church pre-pandemic and burnt out myself and my family). What I was missing was having friends I could confide in, and people asking questions that not only interested me, but mattered to the life I was living. When church started again live, I missed the small groups that gathered in our home before to watch together, and spent from 10am to 10pm in conversation and life with all our kids, and snacks, and bottles of wine. You don’t get that deep connection staring at a pulpit. But around a dinner table, or picnic table, or bbq, or campfire…with a glass of sparkling water or whiskey… that is when the real conversion conversations begin for me. I don’t know how that will “evangelize” anyone but my literal neighbours, but maybe that is exactly where God is asking me to begin.
For me, the Christian church has mostly been about sin…the church telling me that I am a sinner. Period. That could have led me to believe that there was not much good in this world.
I could not live that way. I see so much good in the world. I honestly don’t think much about sin.
My focus is on my Saviour.
I am not a skeptic, rather, I am ever hopeful. There has to be something to believe in. There has to be meaning…and I can always find it.
As for the weather I am actually glad that it has been cool. Maybe we won’t have devastating fires or heat domes.
Maybe the church is “in the state of emergency”. I don’t see it in the church I am attending.
It is a good thing if an “emergency” brings about change.
I was answering your questions in my head. Emergency? Hasn’t it always been? It’s not dead, but fewer people attending (including me) and I don’t really miss it (I worked in the church pre-pandemic and burnt out myself and my family). What I was missing was having friends I could confide in, and people asking questions that not only interested me, but mattered to the life I was living. When church started again live, I missed the small groups that gathered in our home before to watch together, and spent from 10am to 10pm in conversation and life with all our kids, and snacks, and bottles of wine. You don’t get that deep connection staring at a pulpit. But around a dinner table, or picnic table, or bbq, or campfire…with a glass of sparkling water or whiskey… that is when the real conversion conversations begin for me. I don’t know how that will “evangelize” anyone but my literal neighbours, but maybe that is exactly where God is asking me to begin.
For me, the Christian church has mostly been about sin…the church telling me that I am a sinner. Period. That could have led me to believe that there was not much good in this world.
I could not live that way. I see so much good in the world. I honestly don’t think much about sin.
My focus is on my Saviour.
I am not a skeptic, rather, I am ever hopeful. There has to be something to believe in. There has to be meaning…and I can always find it.
As for the weather I am actually glad that it has been cool. Maybe we won’t have devastating fires or heat domes.
Maybe the church is “in the state of emergency”. I don’t see it in the church I am attending.
It is a good thing if an “emergency” brings about change.
Some things need to change.
Some things need to be renewed.