From the book: “Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community” by Brett McCracken “Membership in a local church means ‘joining your imperfect self to many other imperfect selves to form an imperfect community that, through Jesus, embarks on a journey toward a better future… together.’” (p. 125) This doesn’t mean that it is easy. Not even the 1st century churches were without their challenges. Most of the...

From the book: “Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community” by Brett McCracken With a few quotes, let me summarize the contents of not only this last chapter, but also this book. “Christianity with no teeth, no offensiveness, no cost, and no discomfort is not really Christianity at all. It attracts the masses to something vaguely moralistic and therapeutic, but mostly just affirms their ‘eat whatever fruit you...