Decline & Renewal, 13: Brian Sandine Guest Column
Editor's note: Here’s another in our series of guest columns on church decline. Still to come: articles from church leaders like Stan Granberg, Aaron Metcalf, Tim Spivey, Rick Gibson and more. Articles in April will focus on renewal. Our eighth guest column is from Brian Sandine, a West Coast native who has preached in San Leandro, California since 2000. Brian brings us the heartfelt and honest story of decline through the lens of the San Leandro Church of Christ . I pray that you’ll be blessed and informed by his words. The View from Brian Sandine I am an ethnographer at heart. I like to talk with people about what happened, what life was like, and what their experience has taught them. I like to hear them tell their story and reflect on that story’s importance. So to write this piece, I asked several members of our congregation to tell me about it. I preach for the San Leandro Church of Christ, a church in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a church with a story—sever...