The Beginning: A Relief When we first stopped going to church I thought it would be temporary. It would just be a little breather to regroup, heal, and refocus. It felt good, refreshing. It felt like a good decision. Even most people we talked to about it (including a christian councilor we saw) said it [...]
Category Archives: Sunday Church Talks
Our Year Without Church: A Slap In The Face
It has now been a year since we stopped going to church. Well, not completely without church – we did go three times to other peoples churches. But it’s been a year since we stopped even trying to go to church, stopped looking for a church, stopped asking each other if we should go to [...]
Reasons for Going to Church
So, what really is the point of going to church? Why go to church? I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I’ve come up with some reasons for church that I’ve been told, taught, or truly believe myself. I thought I’d share each of them with you along with my thoughts/analysis of them. I’d [...]
Why Go to Church?
How bad is it if we just stop going to church all together for a season? I mean in the past year we’ve made it to church about once or twice a month anyway, is that really enough to say that we go to a particular church? I mean I’m quite certain that the majority [...]
The Bride of Christ…Kind of a Bitch
I realize the older I get that the broken places of my life and the broken places of others lives stick out and we are bound to cut each other up. Our brokenness and hurts don’t just affect us, they lead us, they guide us, they cause us to make decisions that then brake and [...]
Beth Stedman. wife. mommy. daughter. friend. homemaker. sinner. believer. writer. cook. dreamer. artist. yogi. photographer. expat.