Years ago, I served as pastor of a church that was loaded with
persons in recovery from varied addictions. I learned that the recovery
community is often two steps ahead of the rest of us. The more
recovery folks who became a part of our church, the better church we
were: the better we practiced hospitality and lived grace... the better
that we understood gospel and life itself. Recently I interviewed two
leaders at Mercy Street in Houston, a Saturday night worship community
with an emphasis on recovery. I was interested in how the pandemic was
challenging people in recovery and what we might do about it. I went
into the conversation with some unexamined assumptions:
