Brianne Henry

In the past few days I have seen multiple people sharing multiple articles about all the things the Church is doing wrong. From the top ten reasons visitors don’t come back to the newest trends for 2015. Studying church is a good thing – keeping visitors is a great thing – change is hard, but typically good. I’ve also noticed people who used to be pastors or individuals I once knew as the church-going type to have completely dropped off the pulpit and the pews. What’s the deal? Each of us will never find a church that does exactly what we want it to. The pastor will never preach the exact sermon each member wants to hear each week. The Women’s Ministry leader will never be able to find a Bible study that each woman in the group loves. The Youth Pastor will not choose events that are each student's favorite things to do each month. The song leader may *gasp* throw a hymn into the song service every once in a while. Church is doing life together. Doing life together is hard. It