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Yearly Archives: 2009 It has been a year since I first decided to step out of traditional church and spend my Sunday mornings with Jesus at Starbucks. Over that year, “church” has had to move out of Starbucks for financial reasons and has often happened on the beach or my back porch. Another surprising turn of events was… The hospital was a maze. Maybe this feeling of fighting to survive had caused my sense of direction to shrivel up, the same way your body knows how to send blood to the only the vital organs when it thinks its dying. Maybe my mind thought it was dying. I had passed that baby sleeping… this picture is from a “church” moment in the Mexican desert last year when we say churchchurch is not something youdrive bylook atwalk intogo tosleep inlive nearget married inattend church is not something thatstarts at elevenis boringnever ends on timeasks for moneyhas stained glass windowsneeds new carpet church is something you are church is a… I was listening to Tim Keller speak the other day on how growth is a process. When we see a child after some time has elapsed we say, “My, I think you’ve grown.” When we plant a garden, for weeks it looks as if no growth is happening. That’s because growth is gradual; a process… So, I have come to church at Starbucks. The rationale behind this decision is really quite straightforward. I like coffee. I like strangers. I like drinking coffee and talking to strangers. I realized that I have often felt closer in my relationship with Jesus when I am sitting in a coffee shop sharing life with… 
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