BLOGGING TOWARD SUNDAY…

My favorite preacher (now a college professor), Barbara Brown Taylor, said recently in a sermon:

I hear it all the time. “If my church votes the wrong way on this issue, I am leaving.” Or, “I cannot belong to a church that would fund a project like that.” Or, “I don’t go to church anymore, I couldn’t take any more of the 1) hypocrisy 2) sexism 3) liberals 4) conservatives 5) fundraising 6) lousy preaching 7) fill in the blank.”

I believe there are good reasons to leave a church. There are probably even some good reasons to leave the church altogether, but when the main reason is that I cannot find a community of faith that agrees with me on everything from what kind of music we should sing to where we should stand on the death penalty, then I have the perfect excuse never to belong to a church with more than one member (me).

Enough said?

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