Blogs I Read: Part 4

Blog #4: God Entranced

For the six years that we lived in Bloomington, we attended a non-denominational body of believers called Evangelical Community Church and loved every minute of our time there. Not only was the church a real community who supported us and encouraged us in life, but the preaching was dang awesome. Shout-outs go to the senior pastor, Bob Whitaker, for bringin' it week in and week out and kicking our butts every now and then. But kudos also belong to the college ministry pastor, Dan Waugh, who embodies a good balance of cultural relevancy and thoughtfulness in his approach to the Faith. While I never got involved in the college ministry Connexion at ECC, I always appreciated the obvious thought and hard work that Dan put into his Sunday morning sermons when he would pinch-hit for Bob. So naturally, when we moved away, I started reading his blog, God Entranced, to keep up with what was going on at the church.

Now, we're attending a Christian Reformed Church here in South Bend, and let me tell ya, that is quite a difference from our Wesleyan, Anabaptist heritage! But we love the church and we especially love the people we've come to know and serve alongside there. Our time at ECC really prepared us for taking this step into a denomination whose beliefs and practices are a little different in terms of things like baptism and predestination than the churches of our upbringing. And Dan's blog continues to help me understand and appreciate these different points of view, while also giving me some food for thought on topics such as atheism, the evangelical church, the workings out of faith, and various issues in Reformed theology. Plus, the dude has good taste in music. Too bad he likes the Cleveland Indians.