You Can Leave
A Few Obvious Observations
If you would have known these facts, you wouldn’t have moved. You would have concluded, with pretty much the rest of the world, that the so-called “work” in Moscow is a sociopathic freak show. They send convicted child-abusers on missionary trips and they marry serial pedophiles knowing they intend to sire children. Of course, he doesn’t post this madness on his website. He hides it in order to create an optical illusion of the Promised Land. But Moscow is the mirage — and suddenly your former “happy-clappy” PCA church looks like a bastion of biblical orthodoxy. Continue reading
Real Life: They don’t punch back twice as hard
Real Life may not be your ultimate landing place and that’s okay. In the interim, we recommend it for three reasons. Continue reading
Real Life — It’s okay to leave.
Read their history. No church splits. No elder purges. No commitments to loyalty. No disastrous front-page headlines. No slavery. No pastor pleading leniency for sex predators. No imaginary enemies called “intoleristas.”
Real Life: They Have a Thumpin’ Worship Band
Mark Driscoll had a thumpin’ worship band and Mr. Wilson approved of his ministry. In fact, he did the celebrity-pastor circuit with Driscoll and Mr. Wilson never ridiculed him. Continue reading
Real Life
It’s everything you’ve been taught to disdain. But they don’t harbor pedophiles; they don’t send convicted rapists on missionary trips; and many former kirkers have found peace there. You can too. 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 am.
On Their Conscience Seared
The essence of Mr. Wilson’s ministry. Continue reading
On Frogs
Some judgment calls are no-brainers and still others are life-defining moments. And sometimes they’re both. Continue reading