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The journey of faith reminds me of an old radio. There are periods of quiet stillness. Sometimes there is a deafening lack of noise. And then there is the static. Turn the knob, wrong station, white noise, static: Are you there, God?
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Looking to the ground, his face is engulfed with hands searching to cover up feelings of shame and regret. Her back to him, her eyes are gazing toward the window, fighting back tears of betrayal. A dead silence exists between the couple.
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At almost every point in our history, voices have questioned whether the Church of the Nazarene has lost, or is in danger of losing, its way.
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"Why me, O Lord?"
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“Adam, where are you?” (Genesis 3:9 NIV)
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Exile is not something we actively seek out as a favored experience or place to visit. Indeed, there is something ominous-sounding in the very word.
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During my teen years, I discovered that my church had a 14-page list of rules that were mainly "don'ts." No matter how I tried, I felt that I never quite made it to the state of sinless perfection I sought.
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