Why I Left The Church…Twice.

Growing up, I was taught about how much God loved me and how he sacrificed everything for me. I learned all of the Sabbath School (Seventh-Day Adventist equivalent to Sunday School) songs by heart like “Jesus Loves Me” and “This Little Light Of Mine”. I truly loved everything Jesus and wanted to live my life for him. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed church. I was the kid who memorized all of the Old and New Testament books in order. I was the boy who won 90% of the sword drills, beating everyone in finding the text that our teacher gave us. I was the child who believed wholly in the message of surrendering everything to God so that He change us from the inside out.

But it wasn’t long before something changed in me. I don’t know if it was my naivety or my unwillingness to accept my what was in front of me, but the reality is, no matter how much the preacher preached about God’s love, no matter how much we sang about God’s love, no matter how much we talked about God’s love, I soon realized that I rarely felt God’s love in His church…

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