When our local #UnitedMethodist church announced it was #disaffiliating from the #UMC, I thought that was one of the worst spiritual things I’d ever been through. (Clyde and I, and our families, and people like us, were essentially cast out of a local church our family had founded and nurtured for generations.)

And now, being a part of a small “church plant” — a home church, just starting up — is one of the best spiritual things I’ve ever experienced. Go figure.