Saying “No” To Church Pressures
Belonging to the body of Christ can be one of the most wonderful aspects of our lives. And belonging to a church can truly be one of the most difficult or even worst parts of our experience on earth.








For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23

Belonging to the body of Christ can be one of the most wonderful aspects of our lives. And belonging to a church can truly be one of the most difficult or even worst parts of our experience on earth.

God bless this woman for writing this: When church hurts. I’ve wanted to write this post about attending church being painful for a long time, but it took her willingness to write her post to prod me on to write mine.

This is the perfect example of what made me begin to seriously move away from complementarianism and toward egalitarianism/mutuality. Right down to the exceptions made for women like Elisabeth Elliot and Beth Moore. The incredible inconsistencies and finagling that is done that makes no sense.

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but wasn’t sure I wanted to deal with the potential fallout. But after reading Kevin DeYoung’s The Scandal of the Semi-Churched I thought it was a good time to do so.
If you didn’t see the news over the weekend, Doug Phillips of Vision Forum confessed to an inappropriate relationship with a woman not his wife. If you aren’t familiar with all this, just do a search and you’ll find plenty of reaction.