Thank you

I’m not going to lie. I am a Mike fan. Listening to Mike, and learning from him has very much shaped my theology and helped in directing my desire to live a Jesusy life (there have been many others as well of course).

I have listened off and on since the beginning, but the last few months, especially since the spiritually homeless episode has been like freaking water to my soul. While many feel alone while in a deconstruction season, I have not as much, I think thanks to this podcast and just being willing to be open about my own transformation... there are so stinking many of us waking up to new and deeper aspects of Jesus and what it is to actually be Jesusy. Freaking crap the world needs so much more of that.

Anyway, just finished the episode with Finch and wanted to first give Tim 5 stars, and then second confess that in my transition from a blind and passionate “conservative” (mostly just because this was what I was born into that and that was the way of the church I grew up in) I have a banner against people who are blindly conservative and seem to immediately put me in the heretic box. I want to want to be able to love them, especially since I was one of them for much of my life, but in all honesty, a part of me is just angry and hurt and I feel like THOSE people are hurting the church and a whole lot of people as well... see, those people... I just don’t get it yet. That I even say “those” or “they” points to my own crap. I’m still transforming and always will be. Hopefully at some point soon I can sit at a table with my enemies trusting that God is God and I can love them while passionately but graciously disagreeing with them.

Anyways, that’s my banner confession. I’m sure I have a ton more that I am forgetting or unaware of.