A Short Story about Spiritual Formation and the Anemic Spirituality of Contemporary Church

Warning: the story is genuine, tragic, and far too commonplace

Photo by Gerrie van der Walt on Unsplash

Because of the emotional and spiritual drain caused by the church's aggressive and ambitious "bigger, better, more" expansion strategy, a multi-site church that was one of the fastest-growing in the United States recruited me to conduct two days of spiritual formation training and respite for their site pastors. T…