I just stumbled upon this blog for the first time today and wanted to thank you for the vulnerability, wit, and eloquence of this blog post. I resonated with your “Christian” disclaimer and have often lamented in the same ways as a writer, a blogger, and especially as a…gasp…Christian, who doesn’t really want to be labeled as one in this small space that is my own and yet is the worlds.

Its funny the way we use this word “Christian”. I don’t even know what it means any more, if I ever did. But I have this sneaking suspicion that those who are the really “Good Christians” are sometimes the really bad, and the “Bad Christians” somehow end up looking more like Jesus, which I guess really makes them, actually quite good.

We try to make this being a Christian thing, a check list of the do’s and don’ts lest you be sent to hell and yet it doesn’t seem as

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as it did in Sunday School.

So my blessings to you as you start this church. As a pastors kid who watched both my parents live Church for 10 years, I know that road is filled with many joys and many heartaches.

But I am constantly being reminded that “Church” is a people, before it’s a building, offering, 10:00 AM with two uplifting songs to kick it off, thing.

Church is the Body of Christ, which in non-Christianese means it’s the you’s, me’s, people meeting in your living room, and the dark, smelly, secrets that need beams of light and a Jesus-Scented Air Freshner. (I imagine that being kind of a sweaty-sandal mixed with grapes, smell. Not sure if I’d want that scent in my living room, but I know it somehow ends up smelling really good).

I don’t know why I write you this long comment. I planned on just skimming this post before I went along my merry-internet-way, but I wanted to say a thank you and encourage you that you’re not alone in this adventure/struggle/oh-my-God, am I becoming more incredibly crazy or more incredibly sane journey.

@Leslie – It’s very nice to know that I’m not the only crazy one

@Everyone – Hooray for craziness!