I have looked in the eyes of pastors. I see a lot of tired people. I see a lot of pain. The unrelenting pressures of ministry weigh you down with such a weight that you literally can no longer stand upright.
Looking back on our move to Florida to start a MicroChurch is beginning to make me realize how crazy we must have seemed.
You hoped 2023 was going to be different, just like 2022, 2021 and 2020 but here you are facing the same frustrations. It is time for a change.
What if the church’s adoption of cultural paradigms related to marriage is setting up our singles for spiritual failure?
The Church began as an oppressed and persecuted people. However, they also were a dynamic, incarnational, Spirit-filled and multiplying disciple-making community. 500 years later they became an institution and things changed dramatically.
In the movie, “National Treasure,” Ben Gates finds the glasses that Benjamin Franklin created to see clues to the Templar Treasure on the back of the Declaration of Independence. The map was always present but no one could see it without changing ones lens.