Inappropriate Conversations

When a new member of a church pledges to join a congregation, the public statement is often about supporting the church with prayers, presence, gifts, and service. At the point of deciding to leave a particular church, though, that pledge gets called into question. For some, leaving a congregation can reflect an abandonment of everything, all of that plus belief itself. For my family, though, the tension was more about whether the commitment was to a particular local church or something different, something more. This episode, #wte 001, started the series of questions in a spinoff podcast of Inappropriate Conversations simply called Walk The Earth.