Why I'm speaking out against Church of the Highlands - Vision Sunday 2015-part 1
After being raised in a Southern Baptist Church for my entire life, I was determined to raise my kids the same way. However, after walking through an incredibly difficult season in our marriage, we became disillusioned by the people and left the smallish SBC church we had been active in for almost ten years. In our floundering we visited several churches around our town, but none of them ever "felt" right. To my shame we eventually stopped attending church altogether. I don't know why exactly, but one Sunday we found ourselves headed to one of the campus locations of Church of the Highlands or COTH (several of my in-laws were already attending). The kids liked it well enough and honestly, it felt good that our family was back in church, and I especially liked that I could easily get lost in the crowd. After the experience at our previous church I was not interested in another "big fish/small pond" situation. We were pretty faithful for a while, then life got b...