num_pages: 208
description: The thing I am most desperate to keep you from finding out about me is . . . I want to belong but I do not know how. There was a time when being a part of a church was not a decision you made but a reality you inhabited. But today belonging to the church has become a lost art especially for millennials whose church experience is often summed up in one none. Erin Lane's church experience might be better described in two It's complicated. Having grown up in a church she has an appreciation for liturgy and covenant community. Having graduated from divinity school and taken a job in spiritual formation she appreciates the structured shared pursuit of theological and spiritual integrity. Having married a pastor she sort of had church coming. Yet she wasn't always sure how to belong. With earnest persistence Erin practiced the hard (and often surprising) lessons of community. Her story is an invitation to reclaim God's promise of inclusion and live like we belong to one another.
language: English
title: Lessons in Belonging from a Church-Going Commitment Phobe
publisher: IVP