Jen Hatmaker

Several of us know Jen Hatmaker from her book Interrupted - When Jesus wrecks your comfortable Christianity. My friend Michael Scott posted to his facebook account a quote from Jen Hatmaker's new book. I asked him where he found the quote, he said, "on her facebook account!" I am silly. Anyway I loved the quote. Here it is...

"My beliefs were challenged because they were the byproduct of an obviously corrupt system, historically dead last to the table of confession and repentance. My beliefs were challenged because the same people were always in charge and they hung pictures of White Jesus in my Sunday School rooms. My beliefs were challenged because while promising life abundant, they broke hearts and trust and bodies and families with a clear conscience. My beliefs were challenged because, had I held to them as dictated, I would have no ministry, no authority, no agency over my own God-given gifts. My beliefs were challenged because the missionary culture I grew up in turned out to be colonization. My beliefs were challenged because they shamed girls and victims but protected men and abusers. My beliefs were challenged because they sentenced LGBTQ people to traumatic conversion therapy, forced celibacy, public humiliation, and ultimately suicide at seven times the normal rate. My beliefs were challenged because they weren’t producing many disciples, mostly just gatekeepers and defectors."

And so I ask... what has our faith journey produced?  Maybe it is time to change some of our beliefs.

It's a beautiful day in God's world be sure to see the good.
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Paris-Normandy River Cruise
October 23-31, 2019
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