by Van Robison

Dear Jesus,

I am writing this personal letter to you, because I have questions and issues about this thing called "church", which seems to falsely represent who you really are. From the time I was a child I have always believed in God. When my dad passed away, I was a child of eleven years old, and having no mother, my relatives didn't take me to church as my dad always did. As a young man of the age of eighteen, I became very interested in church again and I listened to a man preach on the radio. I thought he spoke truth, and so when I left the Air Force, I joined this church. After twelve years of this particular church, with all of its authoritarianism, legalistic teachings from the Old Testament, and three different tithes and endless offerings, and other odd teachings, I took my family and left. Read more...