On Saturday, I made fun of biblical scholars and devotional bloggers. It’s a naughty thing to do but Saturday posts are like that. Do what you gotta do to get the visitor stats up to a reasonable level on the weekends. I mentioned Michael Spencer of iMonk fame as one devotional blogger that I can’t resist. Another guy in the same category is [rhymes with kerouac]. I love [rhymes with kerouac], not only because he has a funny name, and not only because he calls his wife the Resident Love Goddess (or the RLG), but because his life at “The Mission” in many ways seems like my life “On The Mission Field.” He apologized for writing a really long post so I’m not going to apologize for pulling out a really long quote from it and sharing it here. And by the way, another reason I like [rhymes with kerouac] is that he’s a really good writer.

So now I’m trying to figure out how I got here – what was the chain of events that took me from being a reasonably abnormal church going, WOW Worship buying, bible-study leading church membership guy to, well, this deeply dissatisfied person who is very much on the outside looking in. Frankly, it began shortly after I started working at the Mission, when I began to experience God in profoundly personal ways amongst the homeless, the drunks and the drug addicts. It began when I started seeing a huge disconnect between what we did on Sunday morning – being all about God – and what I did on Monday morning, which was entirely of and through and in God. Looking back on it now, I realize that once I found God I almost immediately lost my interest in church, an equation that continues to puzzle me on many levels.

From Exile on Main Street by [rhymes with kerouac] at Today at the Mission