Merv Edmunds was born and raised in a loving Christian home. He began to question his exclusivist beliefs after dealing with many emotionally damaged believers, and the more he questioned, the more he came to realise his faith was in adherence to a set of ideas and traditions. In 2010 he left that fellowship and began a search for truth, a search not fettered by faulty assumptions and institutionalised errors. A search, he claims, that has led to a relationship with God as Father not prescribed by any church, but invigorated by the growing emergence of the ‘unchurched’; fellow seekers who are finding a God that is more loving and more beautiful than they could ever have imagined.
Below is a list of essays showing the process of deconstructing one’s faith practice and rebuilding another can be a joyous one. Read carefully, for it may not be for you.
Flying high – one man’s journey