Instead of continuing to depend mainly on procedures and rules, we’d have to start asking deliberately together in our church meetings, “What is God’s will for the world and for the church?”
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We may not notice how empire shows up in our world today, leading many observers to call the U.S. today’s equivalent of first-century Rome. Our lack of awareness sometimes keeps us from seeing how we as Christians need to be opposing the empire’s current manifestations.
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For the first time in my life I had realized that dreams had meaning, and that God sometimes gave guidance through them.
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You Lost Me is about young insiders—young adults who once thought of themselves as Christians but have left the church or even left the Christian faith.
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When at midlife I started seriously considering what I believed, what the Bible said, and what I saw the church doing, I began gradually revising my understanding of God.
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Current events may therefore reveal the need to question some of our previously unquestioned assumptions about our country’s ways of functioning. They may show the need for a fresh look at our nation and its history.
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If we’re growing as Christians, we keep moving through different stages of faith as we go through life. They are like successive levels on a spiral path that goes around a mountain repeatedly as it goes up the mountain.
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The church needs to change. That didn’t become apparent to me until midlife. Since then, however, it has steadily kept becoming more and more apparent.
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