Back to this topic .. but remember, as always, you are free to skip should you opt ,, as they say, "we have reached cruising altitude, you are free to move about the cabin" .. because the seat-belt sign is not on ...
Anyway, with that disclaimer out of the way ... there are several things mentioned in Jeremy's review (below) that I will highlight as something I agree with .. your mileage may vary.
IF we are to finally get to a point where those that know Jesus personally are in reality brothers and sisters (and we are NOT on a bell curve for performance comparisons to prove who is closest to Dad or who is in the inner circle) .. we need to understand each other and grace each other where ever they may be at in the process .. IMHO of course.
Jeremy's review of "Beyond Sundays":
"... In light of the ground-breaking and church-altering study by Packard and Hope in their book about the so-called (but poorly named) “Dones,” Wayne Jacobsen’s book encourages these “Dones” to continue following Jesus outside the four walls of institutional Christianity.
While many are using the research and ideas in “Church Refugees” to change the way Sunday morning church is done so that the “Dones” might come back and start attending again, Wayne Jacobsen praises the “Dones” for leaving so that they might better follow Jesus, love others, and live in a daily relationship with God and others, as we were called to do.
Note very carefully that Wayne is NOT saying that the “Dones” are right and everyone who stays in the Sunday morning church service is wrong. He is saying that both can be right, and both should celebrate and rejoice the choices of the others to follow Jesus. He wants both groups to stop looking down their noses at each other and judging one another.
Toward this end, Wayne addresses many of the issues and concerns that people have about no longer attending the Sunday church service, and ultimately encourages people to follow Jesus and loves others within their relationships, whether this is in a pew on Sunday morning, or by hanging out with friends during the week.
If you are a “Done,” or feel that Jesus is leading you to something more than just the Sunday morning church service … read this book.
If you still enjoy and benefit from the Sunday morning service, but wonder why others are leaving, it is also important that you read this book. It will help you understand that they are not leaving the church, nor are they abandoning Jesus.
Oh, and by the way… one of the things I loved MOST about the book was the long list of Endorsements at the front … none of which were best-selling authors, mega-church pastors, or popular bloggers and podcasters. I assume they are all “Dones.”.."
Yeah, that last one is priceless :)
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