Kelly Bean - How to Be a Christian Without Going to Church (N103)

Nomad started out with a group of people wanting to explore new forms of church, so after six years we thought we'd once again explore this idea.

Kelly Bean grew up in traditional church and never questioned its practices or structure. But over time she began to realise that the house group she led felt a lot more like church than what happened on a Sunday. So when her Church closed down, her house group became her church. So we asked Kelly what she's learnt along the way.

“If you’re in a place where you’ve been wounded and you’re living out of pain or discontentment or you’re deconstructing a lot, don’t be too fast to start something. Find a process and a way and time to be able to heal so that when there’s a new beginning, you’re doing that out of a sense of being called into something beautiful as opposed to reacting to something that was difficult.” - Kelly Bean

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