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The Importance of Relational Halom
When someone de-churches, I don't feel threatened. I can be the calm, non-anxious presence that they're looking for. And rather than taking up personally that they're de-churching from the church, I attend and try to give them a proper hearing. Tell me more, tell me more. So what is it that you’re de-churched from? I love that. Maybe that's the first thing I could say. It's fascinating because we grew up with this metaphor where we said, God is like that judge when you have a speeding fine and you rock up before this judge. But now I push back and say, that metaphor only