The church was heading in a dangerous direction. Casting aside love and mercy in exchange for judgment and wrath. With a message of condemnation we walked out into the world, proclaiming what may have been true, but lacking all the love of God. We spoke against the sin of men with a self righteous attitude that turned people away from our message instead of causing them to incline an ear to listen.

Then things changed.
We improved our approach.
We saw the disgrace that our methods brought upon the cause of Christ.

A generation moved to remedy the situation with a boldness and love that was beyond all others.

But somewhere in the correction, we over-corrected. In trying to swerve back onto the road, we jumped the median and headed straight for the opposite ditch. And now it is the fellow Christian that we speak to without love and mercy. Now it is our brother that we harshly discipline without the love of Christ.

Now we mock and we ridicule.

We tweet judgment. We blog satire.

And none of it glorifies God.

We over-corrected.

Your thoughts?

It has been a while since I last blogged. And there are many reasons for that. Part laziness, part priority realigning, part forgetting why I ever started blogging at all. The past few months have been a whirlwind of personal change and of church change. Life has moved incredibly fast, so fast it has almost been a blur. My wife tells me that I’m just getting old. I remind her that I’m only 26 and she replies, “See? Old!”

Part of the decision to begin blogging again was to also remove the old blogs. The entire purpose of starting this blog was to share with the church, and anyone who might read it the journey we were on and the lessons I was learning about God, about myself, and about life in general. To keep it Pure. To keep it Simple. To keep it Relevant.

So, I’m going to try this again. A fresh start. A clean slate. And many other cliches about beginning anew. I hope, that as I begin to share with you the journey I am on, and the journey of Crossroads Church that you will jump in and become a part of the community.

I’m excited to share my journey with you!