Summer Jaeger

most of my time is spent being a wife and a mom & I like it that way

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

🎧This week I'm excited to tell you the story of your favorite author who led an absolutely unbelievable life that you knew nothing about.

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[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

@GoodMornCarla

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

Many such cases.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

“I want you to know,” I told the teary-eyed man sitting across from me, “it is my practice to call the pastor of a church when someone starts attending my church, especially when they tell me things like you’ve told me. So I don’t want you to be surprised by that.”

He looked like he swallowed hard and said, “Oh, okay.”

I was a 25-year-old church planter, just several months into my first church plant. And I was quickly learning that new churches attract what you might rightly call malcontents. These are people who are upset with their last church, sometimes for legitimate reasons, but a lot of times it’s just nonsense.

This young college graduate, only two or three years younger than me, had just told me about how no one loved him, got him, understood him, or cared about him at his last church. He gave me a long story that came off as something of a sob story.

An older pastor had once told me, “The way people come to your church is the way they’ll go to the next church when they leave yours.”

That really stuck with me.

And I said, “You know, Joe, my concern is that we’re not going to live up to your expectations either, and six months to a year from now, you’ll be telling this same story to the next church.”

He assured me that wouldn’t be the case.

I called up his former pastor and got ahold of him.

“Hey, I want to talk to you about a former member of yours who started attending my church.”

I mentioned the name, and he said, “Oh man, good luck.”

“Yeah, I thought you might say that.”

I relayed the story, and the pastor told me their side of it, which definitely correlated with reality much better.

Essentially, they had challenged him repeatedly about his laziness, his failure to keep commitments, and his lack of motivation to get more than a part-time job. Eventually, he left because they weren’t loving enough.

It was only about two months later that he started posting on our church forum, repeatedly asking for prayer to help him pay basic bills like car insurance. People started asking him questions about budgeting, where he was working, and all that. And again, he had all these excuses.

It was becoming evident to everybody that he was fishing for pity, hoping someone would just give him the money.

But at the time, our church plant was mostly made up of young newlyweds who didn’t have much money themselves, while this guy was a single college graduate with a roommate.

In time, this led to a confrontation, and he too left our church because we also weren’t loving enough.

It’s the circle of church life.

I do think this is a good practice for all pastors to build into their ministry. It serves as a protection for your church, and it also strengthens relationships with other local churches.

Paintings: F. Moormans

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

You know when you wake up and remember there’s coffee waiting for you so you tiptoe downstairs like

[G @stevensongs]

This year was directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

@decorated_dust I know. I wasn’t joking. Being totally serious, you described my experience to a T.

Of course I know my experience isn’t a Universal Truth but it seems to be a general pattern.

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

real

[lia @tallsnail]

drinking my creatine coffee in the morning after night 5 of getting up 6+ times with maybe-teething maybe-sick baby

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

@MrsGoresDiary It’s great advice, honestly.

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

My husband is hospitable. When you come to our house, expect him to try to feed you, have a variety of drinks to offer you, and for him to help you feel situated and at home.

Which is why it was so funny to me last night, when our guests not-from-Arizona were leaving, and it was dark out, that he offered a warning to watch out for scorpions as they made their way to their car.

He’s always looking out for you, but he also might terrify you in the process.

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

@hollowandhome Well good morning!

[Reepicheep Apologist @wrightca]

Culture flows downstream from religion. You can't simply sub in another religion or pretend to be areligious and expect the culture not to change significantly.

It's always been about religion. Always.

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

@decorated_dust Ohhhh yeaaaaa ok that makes sense.

Make sure your PT sees this. 😂

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

Fret not!

[Bradley Pierce @bradleypierce]

If you are a Christian, and you are despairing today, you should go read Psalm 37.

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

@KimmieClag79 I already know this video is amazing and I haven’t turned the sound on 😂😂😂😂😂

[The Right To Bear Memes @grandoldmemes]

Pronouns in email signatures after midterm results

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

Many prominent first wave feminists were raised in mainline churches and eventually became Unitarian before abandoning the faith altogether or joining the Occult.

It's almost like denying the Trinity is Step One of joining a cult.

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

“I know how much trauma you haven’t experienced just based on how well magnesium works for you.”

- an actual perfect & true text I just received from my friend.