Author: Matt Broweleit

Matt Broweleit (MDiv Denver Seminary, BA University of Puget Sound) has a patchwork history of charismatic, liturgical, evangelical, megachurch and smaller church experiences. He has served as a Worship Pastor, Connections Pastor and Small Groups Pastor as well as spending 7 years in technology at Russell Investments. He has advocated for the homeless and served the HIV/AIDS community. But what really defines Matt is the furrowed brow he gets when he dreams about the future of church. His curious discontentment is the engine behind his imagination. He is part of a new thinking through of what it means to be a community of Jesus followers and is convinced that together, we can wrestle it into the here and now. Matt and his wife, Katie, have four kids, Annabelle, Lizzy, Andrew and Mia.

March 2, 2020February 1, 2021Church, Justice, Nature, Relationships, World

Church Survival Guide: Part 4

How does your spiritual life intersect with the rest of your life? I was raised in the church and the basic message was often that physical things were bad while spiritual things were good. I don’t think they would have said it that simply, but the message was clear. Sex is bad. Worship is good. […]

August 21, 2019February 1, 2021Church, Relationships

Church Survival Guide: Part 3

“Church would be great if it weren’t for all the people.” A friend of mine said this to me after an awkward prayer service. The pastor had promised, “If you’ve tried prayer meetings before and you don’t want to try them again, trust me, this one will be different.” It wasn’t different. The pastor had […]

May 13, 2019February 1, 2021Church, Formation, Relationships

Church Survival Guide: Part 2

Out of all of our relationships, perhaps the most complex is the one with ourselves. As Benjamin Franklin once said, “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” Humans are complex beings. In one moment we can treat people with the quiet compassion of St. Francis and in the […]

March 4, 2019February 1, 2021Church, Formation

Church Survival Guide

If you relate with any of the following, this survival guide is for you: “I used to care about church, now it just feels so fake.”“I still want God in my life, but church isn’t doing it for me anymore.”“I’m tired of the obsession with big buildings, celebrity leaders and hipster worship artists.”“Why can’t I […]

September 17, 2018February 1, 2021Author, Writing

A four year struggle

I started writing Out of the 4th Place in August of 2014. Now it’s September of 2018. I originally gave myself the goal of about a year to complete it. Hmmm… that didn’t happen. Just over four years… The outline for the whole book came to me one morning. I had been contemplating taking a […]