Dig in Deep

The title says it all. We’ve decided to leave our church. I resigned from my leadership position last month, and this past Sunday was my last Sunday as a regular worship leader there.

For those of you who have been following this blog, this might not come as much of a surprise.

Over the past year I’ve become increasingly disillusioned with the way most churches approach ministry. It’s not that churches are necessarily doing everything wrong, but I’m concerned that we’re not putting the emphasis in the places where God wants us to.

In my specific situation, I’ve also become very concerned about the way my church has been repeating the same mistakes of the two churches that it was birthed from – churches that died because of those mistakes.

What I don’t want to be is the kind of person who takes off from a church without really sharing the reasons for it. With my resignation, I also gave a letter to the leadership sharing some of my reasons. I’ll also be talking a lot more about it in a few future posts.

But initially, I wanted to answer the question everyone has been asking: what are we going to do next?

The simple answer is: we don’t know. What we do know is that God has given us a burden, and a vision, that will not be satisfied by just any other church. We don’t know if that means we’ll find something that will make sense with where God is calling us, or if we’ll have to seek out other similarly disillusioned Christians and start something new. We do know, though, that there are a lot of others who are struggling with the same things that we are. Some of them read this blog regularly. But for us, we’ve decided to stop holding out for things to change, for things to improve. We’ve decided that it’s time for us to be a part of something completely different.

We would appreciate your prayers. If you’re interested in more detail behind my reasons for doing this, read some of my archives (you might have to back as far as August 2005), and also stay tuned. There’s a lot more to come on this.