Friday, April 10, 2020

WORKING OUR RECOVERY DURING THE PANDEMIC


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: