Tue 7 Feb 2006
We got this email from Australia the other day:
Have you decided on a (different) title? Will you be putting it into regular Christian bookshops? I would love to see your book in there and given the nature of the Australian national character I think it would do very well with the title just as it is – “So, you don’t want to go to church anymore”. No doubt it would stir up controversy and opposition (are you prepared for that) but it would also get people’s attention. Many people in paid ministry would consider it as dangerous and condemn it. There are however many, many people in this country who go to church week after week after week and are basically sick of it. They know it doesnt deliver reality but they don’t know anything else. – Anyway this is just a thought from a brother with a little bit of anarchist still in him.
I’d love to get it in bookstores too, but since we did this one on our own, we don’t have the mechanisms to get that done. If bookstores want them, however, we will make them available.
And I guess we’re ready for the opposition should it come, but this is a pretty small blip on the radar screen of Christian thought. Who knows what Father will do with it. I’m just thrilled to be on the journey with him.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I just read Waynes comments about selling the book in Australia. I bought a copy in a christian bookstore here – when I went back later to buy more as gifts the stack was gone not just the whole stack but the complete display and everything was gone – Maybe sold out but maybe removed due to political pressure? To add my comments… Jake’s story is my story also. Years in the ministry left me burnt out trying to fulfill the vision if the snr pastor only to be thrown out the door when I questioned why we were busting our butts just to keep the machine running. I was lied about and ostricised – but God is so good. My faith is stronger now than ever.
I liken institutional Church to the theory of perpetual motion i.e. any energy created is expended just to keep up the mechanism moving.