Fearless Faith

Participation in the broader church’s judicatory is an eye opener for many people who are thrust into it for the first time. It is even crazy-making for those who have been immersed in it for some time, baptism by fire as it were. Divisions in the institutional church are at an all-time high as we deal with the daily challenges that COVID, politics, and social unrest have laid at our feet.

Particularly vexing in this day and age, however, is the increasing tendency of some churches to embrace a victim mentality, in part because it has been popularized in media at all levels. Thanks to the Firs...