Unchurching: The Exodus from Institutional Forms of Church — Richard Jacobson | TEDxPaloAltoCollege

Please take a few minutes to watch, and really listen to Richards Ted-Talk presentation:  Unchurching - The Exodus from Institutional Forms of Church.

In this talk, former minister and author, Richard Jacobson, discusses a trend happening in the WORLD - people leaving institutional forms of church in large numbers for a different way to express spirituality. (video below).

Unchurching (Ted Talk/VIDEO) - The Exodus from Institutional Forms of Church -- Richard Jacobson

For those of you who have departed organized religion and now find yourself without 'church' or fellowship, watching this video will bring comfort

Richard Jacobson quit his full-time job as a pastor in 2003 because he was having a crisis of faith. He wasn’t having doubts about God... he was having doubts about the way people 'do' church today.  The first christian churches were simple communities, but many of today’s churches have become corporations.

Jacobson’s work comes as more and more people are disengaging with churches in the U.S., and his idea suggests that spirituality is more fully experienced in a less traditional intimate community. Richard now helps moderate a rapidly growing online community of “unchurching” Christians from all around the world.

Watching this video will be a relief to many who have left the institutional church and to those who never graced the door of building for the fear they would be swallowed up by it... Please share if you have enjoyed this video so that others can know that they are not alone.