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I typically have nightmares that resemble actual life. There are no monsters or surreal images in my dreams, so many times I am left wondering whether the events of my dreams are indeed reality.

Last night I dreamt that one of my best friends from middle school (Afra) had contacted me through facebook to tell me that another best friend from that era (Bryan) had died. In real life, I have been wondering about Bryan a lot lately… little things keep reminding me of him, so to hear that he had died left me pretty shaken up (we were really close all the way through high school- and into my first couple years of college.) In the dream, I checked his facebook and found that the Bryan I grew up with was no longer the Christian friend who bought me my first real bible and got me to eventually go to church. The picture was the same, but the person it represented was into everything other than Christ… it scared me to wonder how far away he had wandered… and why.

I got up this morning and rushed to my computer. There was no facebook message from Afra and it appeared that Bryan had updated his facebook a few hours earlier. Everything was good, except for his facebook… it looked just like the one from my nightmare. My dear friend really has wandered away… I knew he had been hurt pretty badly by his home church, but I didn’t realize he had totally walked away from Christ.

What are we doing, as a church… are we scaring people away? I’m not talking about individual denominations and varying tastes of music… I’m talking about the way we represent Christ. Are we allowing gossip and slander to tear apart a body that was created to bring hope to the world? My heart aches for my friend… and for everyone else who misses the hope of Christ because we as His followers forget who we are representing.