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Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does your church make you uncomfortable? It's easy to dream about the "perfect" church—a church that sings just the right songs set to just the right music before the pastor preaches just the right sermon to a room filled with just the right mix of people who happen to agree with you on just about everything. Chances are your church doesn't quite look like that. But what if instead of searching...

who choose this sort of relationship to church. I sympathize with their frustrations with churches and the bothersome types of people who inhabit them. But the Christian life cannot be an individual affair. The church is necessarily plural. To say you “love Jesus but not the church” is to say you prefer a decapitated head. That’s creepy and doesn’t work biblically (see Eph. 5:23). We are the body of Christ. A head needs a body and a body needs a head. Though it’s true there are aspects of salvation