Land of My Sojourn

The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found

By: Mike Cosper

Narrated by: Mike Cosper

In the years since leaving local church ministry, I've devoted an enormous amount of time and resources to examining the church's often troubled witness, its ongoing crisis of leadership, and the epidemic of narcissism, abuse, and cover-up that has continued to emerge year after year. This book is about my journey both before and undergirding that work—the shattering of dreams and the grace that restored a broken faith in the aftermath. It's a story about grace leading me home when I thought all was lost.

Taken together, my encounters with Peter, Elijah, and Jesus connected to indelible images from my time in Israel and formed a new spiritual landscape in my mind, one with enough gravity to draw my feet back to solid ground. My hope is that as I tell this story you might find echoes of your own. I pray if you're in the wilderness, you might find that though the territory is a mystery, you are far from alone. Most of all, I pray that you rediscover that Jesus is chasing you like a lover . . . right through heaven's gates.

©2024 Michael D. Cosper (P)2024 eChristian

Great weaving of personal and biblical stories

Personal and profound story with great insights from someone who has walked the hard road.

Ambivalent

There’s a lot here that I identified with as someone who joined a startup church that ultimately collapsed, and I found the narrative around Peter sinking powerful. Yet it’s hard to get past the occasional jabs at the left, the author’s love for Billy Graham, or the unwillingness to dissect the problems with Reformed theology that undergird cospers more conservative tendencies. I hope that unlearning happens as Cosper continues to deconstruct.