Rich,

Thank you for sharing from your heart. It is encouraging to read that you have a greater burden for souls than policies.

The list of names of people I have known who have left the church because they were not being spiritually fed and not allowed to minister in the ways God put on their hearts to work for Him is tragically long and still growing, so you spoke to my heart. I am not satisfied with the worn-out, non-productive methods and attitudes that I see being expressed and enforced in the church. I am with you and willing to dare to risk failure so that I can find more effective ways of sharing God's redeeming love with my neighbors and community.

I once saw God use a stopped-up toilet to bring a person to salvation, so if God can do that, I can't imagine placing any limits on anyone in their efforts to bring others to Him.