I will stop publishing to this blog as of today. I started writing this blog shortly after leaving the Elder Board in 2007. For a couple of years, posts focused on dealing with residual issues related to church, church attendance, church doctrine, and the whole purpose of church life. What I wrote was an honest expression of my struggles with leaving institutional Christianity in search of the God of heaven. Since my writing frequently referenced local personalities and organizations, I maintained anonymous authorship and a tight circle of readers.
Over the last year or so, I have noted a slow transition in the focus of my writing. I have moved from criticism and cynicism (sometimes rather severe) toward subjects related to my interior life and what God is doing to remake me into one of His. More Christians are likely to track with me now than when I was writing about “all that was wrong with Christendom.” Since the nature of my compositions is shifting, it seemed appropriate to move to another blog, one that will not be anonymous, but open to a larger audience (my small group, for example.)
So that interested parties might know “where I’m coming from,” I have copied about 20 posts from this blog to the new one. These are posts that I consider to be the most important and formative in my journey, posts that remain highly prominent in my thinking to this day.
Finally, for those of you who have been following me throughout, thank you for your support and your comments. And I hope that you will continue to pray for me (us, really!), that our “love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help [us] to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ [we] may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.”
Click here to go to the new blog:
http://hebendsdown.wordpress.com
