Okay, the last few months have been, well lengthy. Several things have happened, here is some if it:
1. After much prayer, emotion turmoil, and spiritual wrangling I have decided to no longer allow voices within my heritage to keep me from speaking those things which I have learned. There is truth beyond what we have learned, to believe otherwise, to preach otherwise, to demand otherwise, cripples both the growth of the church and the spread of the Gospel. To use a phrase I learned this year, “The One who spoke, still speaks.”
2. I have decided not to accept being “disfellowshipped”. Emphatically, I am not a false teacher, nor am I a change agent. I simply resound the Restoration Plea that being to find and be the first century church. Doing so challenges the assumptions of many in the Church of Christ. While I have limited my direct involvement, I am doing exactly what I was taught: study the bible; seek the first century church; and humble myself to God’s correction, through his Scriptures, both in my worship and discipleship.
3. I took the last few months to write and prepare another manuscript. This manuscript examines the Hermeneutical Method of the Church of Christ and why I am no longer persuaded that it works. Like the theological series, I will be releasing the manuscript in segments.
