I’ve been doing a thing lately where I write blog posts and then don’t post them. So here’s the first one. I’m finding it hard to title though. 


Hi...
So you probably know that in the past year I started a church...
I wanted to talk a little about why and what I see the church as and what I hope for this small and hopefully growing gathering group of people called “Calvary Limerick” or “Calvary Chapel Limerick” if you like. 
Some of you reading this will think “yeah, I know this guy from school (or when he was a kid) it makes total sense that he would run a church sometime.”
If that’s you, I put on a good show, and I’m sorry.
There’s others of you who will say “I know him from school (or when he was a teenager) and I thought he would have given up on this Christianity bull by now.” 
If that’s you, give me a chance to explain why I’ve gone so deep as to “organize religion”, not just meddle in it myself. 
So, to be quite frank and to just throw a thought out there that I hope you’ll give me the benefit of the doubt to read the next couple of paragraphs after reading this next statement:
I hate the church.
What I mean by that is that I hate this system of falsities that we humans have created where we “do church” and what actually happens is we sit with some people in a room for a bit, maybe sing, listen to some guy talk (that guy is now me