My best friend Fashion Pete left the church after my brother’s drowning accident. He told me about some really terrible things that happened to him when he was younger and said that if God wanted to fulfill people’s dreams, He was doing a real crap job of it. I couldn’t blame him. Most of my friends from Ignite also left the church. Relevance is funny like that. The more relevant you are now, the less relevant you’ll be in ten years. Or in a different culture. Or when life rocks you with tragedy. Nothing could have been less relevant to me than “relevance” in those few weeks.
