Sublime

In truth, there is no returning, no going back. We are in a new location, a land many people call home, and so the churches must ask very different questions. Exile questions about how to fix and make the church work again won’t help us to discern the Spirit.

Our church decided to turn off our livestream when the complexities of COVID-19 were dying down, and it was quite helpful in regathering the church in corporate worship.4

Church just isn’t a priority for me.

vision during the season of Easter and launch a new ministry at Pentecost. The usual volunteers get involved, but otherwise there’s not much traction.

We believe God’s abundant Spirit is bringing new life to the church in North America, but it looks a lot different than we imagined when we started.

My Church is moving from denominationalism to apostleships.

Small churches—which make up the vast majority of congregations in communities across the US—have a shrinking number of people and resources to work with.

But if the church’s glory days were at least forty years ago, that means the generations without these memories are the majority. The only story they know is the unraveling, although they have heard much of life before the unraveling and may grieve alongside older leaders.

together reveal a more critical deformity driving these churches: the primacy of human agency.