Fighting fair. Not a spouse’s favorite saying when they are currently in the middle of “Who’s Gonna Win This Time” with their dreaded enemy of the moment.
This past week I learned that well known Christian author and speaker, Jen Hatmaker, announced she was out of the church for the time being. In 2020, she announced that she and her husband were divorcing. The next year she stopped attending church. She recently stated, “I’m out of the church right now. I don’t know that I will ever go back, and I don’t know that I will never go back. I grew up under the steeples. My dad was a pastor. I married one at the ripe age of nineteen, and I have always been a part of the machine. I was a leader. I was an organizer. I was a pastor. I don’t even know what church could or would be for me just as a person. My lifelong exposure has left me in a place where I know too much. I have been a part of the problem. So I need a break from the machine.” I was and am concerned when I learned of this, mostly because I can relate.
