(from Wedding Crashers)

It’s amazing how the time flies, but considering that it’s been an unusually busy month it shouldn’t be surprising.  I doubt I’m breaking new ground for anyone here, but Leah has finished up at Quest and started making baby steps towards her next venture: Sinners and Saints Church.  Even though she’s technically “resting” right now, she’s stayed plenty busy working and dreaming on what is to come.

I haven’t been sitting on my ass either, but the sordid details aren’t nearly as exciting.  Cars break and get fixed.  House projects are undertaken.  Yadda yadda yadda.

Anyway, for the first time in many, many years we’re in between churches since the new church won’t start services for a few months.  It’s especially an inconvenience during Advent, when there are so many fun church things in which to take part.  While we won’t have a church “home” for a while, we do want to keep going to church, or rather churches.  There are plenty of churches in the area we are planting in that we want to scope out, and many other churches pastored by friends which we can’t visit during normal sundays.

There is, however, a beauty to being a visitor.  No one expects anything from you, and furthermore, no one knows who you are.  You’re anonymous, and just like being a freshman in college all over again, you can take on a new identity without anyone being the wiser.

With that in mind, Leah and I have been brainstorming new identities for when we visit new churches.  Ex-satanists making their first visit to church?  Ultra-fundamentalists (dressing for the part, and Leah walking behind me) come to tell people of the error in their ways?  Christian swingers?  New-age devotees promoting one-faith agendas?  Really the possibilities are endless.

While it’s cool to mix it up ever decade or so, and it’s fun to see some of our friends in action, I think we’ll both be happy to be us again, and with a church to call home.

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