Pastor Janna in the mountains

I'm writing today over at Scot McKnight's blog (LINK)

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I’ve never written before about my church in the mountains and my pastor named Janna. It’s time to do that, and you can read about it at “Confessions of a Church Snob,” over at my professor Scot McKnight’s wonderful blog (LINK BELOW).

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Not long ago I was talking about switching churches with a wise writer friend named Michelle Van Loon. Michelle has Jewish heritage and became a Christ follower during the Jesus movement, but since then she’s become something of a church nomad, like a home missionary who serves a church for a season and then moves on. I knew she’d have some wisdom for me. On this occasion she listened to my story of church hurt and commiserated with this Phyllis Tickle quote: “every 500 years the church needs to go through a rummage sale.” Rooting out rummage implies change, and in her upcoming book Downsizing, Michelle says downsizing is in progress, and that we’re “actively sorting through the last couple of generations of Evangelicalism in the West.”

As I sorted through my own experience of hurt, I decided to go small and left my SBC-style nondenom megachurch for a small, rural liturgical church, the closest church to my house . . . Read more on Scot McKnight’s blog here.