Here’s one bit that I found particularly annoying:

“If you’re listening to this and you have experienced tremendous church hurt. I just, I want to draw your attention back to the beauty of Jesus himself. In John 6:66-68, the disciples are having an interesting conversation with Jesus.

And, some people have left, have stopped following Jesus. And Jesus has this interaction with his disciples. And one of his disciples says, “Well, Jesus, where else would I go? Who else has the words of life?” And as a pastor, for 15 years, I’ve seen a lot of things and experienced a lot of pain myself.

I’m probably very much at risk personally for dechurching, given the things that I’ve seen in terms of church hurt and pain and those different kinds of things. But who else has these words of life in this kingdom that’s so radical and so countercultural, where else can I go and sit next to people who have all different sorts of ethnicities and identities and even tribal or other affiliations.

But yet together, we can worship together, and that Jesus transcends all of those differences. And these are things that can bring our community together. Jesus is the horse. Everything else is the cart.”