08/09/2026
As I’ve wrestled with the point of church over the past few years since I walked out of the pulpit for the last time as a full-time pastor. I’ve kept coming back to two words:
Gather and Scatter.
That’s the point of church as far as I can tell.
To come together, to remember we aren’t alone, and then to go where God leads us out in the world, maybe together, maybe apart, to take that message of community and care with us where we go.
Over and over, Jesus brings people together and then sends them out, back to their homes or cities or off on new adventures to be and become who God’s calling them to be. He gathers and he scatters. And he does it in beautifully human and holy ways.
I hope you’ll join me here at God Knows Where starting on Tuesday, August 11, as we look at how Jesus gathered and scattered a community that transformed lives, communities, and the world. And how we can translate that truth into our own real life communities in the post-modern, post-truth, digitally overwhelmed 21st-century world we call home. I’m hoping this series can be more of a roadmap or outline for the qualities and characteristics and practices we can look for and cultivate in our own communities of faith, wherever we are, so we can do our best to follow Jesus’ example.
After all, isn’t that the point of church?
