Smokes, Shots & Substances // Talking Elephants & Tipping Cows

You know those topics that are taboo? The topics that polite conversations avoid? The topics that we’re all thinking about it, but we’re not talking about—especially at church? Yeah...we’re going there. Politics, sex, alcohol, suicide, hell, suffering. We’re talking about all of these “Elephants in the Room” and we might even tip some “Sacred Cows” that have been built up in the process. Now you might be thinking: “This is going to be uncomfortable.” You’re right. It’s going to be uncomfortable...and eye-opening, healing, necessary. There is no better, safer place to discuss these topics than church. So with that in mind...can we talk?

Alcohol, marijuana, painkillers, The Opioid Epidemic. We ignore substance abuse to our own peril, and often until it is too late and addiction has set in. We don’t want church to just be a place where people come to heal from substance abuse. We want church to be a place where we help substance abuse never start in the first place. And it all begins with a conversation...