Churched or Un-Churched?

Sometimes I second-guess myself.

Lately it's been whether my calling really is to non-religious, non-'churched', non-Christians, or if I'm kidding myself and really I should stick to what I know - the churched crowd.  I mean, these are the ones I've been devoting my time and my life to for the past what, 7 years... more than that, really.  I know them, I jive with them, I'm not shocked at their behaviors (most of the time).  And as much as I don't like to admit it, I'm not that unlike them.  Let's face it, I am 'Churched'.

But for some reason, I really REALLY want to plant a church that is made up of predominately 'Un-Churched' (or rather, 'Non-Churched') people. Why is that?

Because I'd rather start with something new than try to fix something old.  I find myself in contexts where there are 'Churched' people around, preaching at them how they shouldn't be this way or that way, how religion is the anti-Gospel, how their righteousness needs to be repented of just as much as sinners' sin.  I'm trying to right a faulty Christian mindset that's protectionistic rather than missional, that's inward rather than outward, that's moral management rather than Gospel- and Jesus-centric.  I'm trying to undo years, sometimes lifetimes, of indoctrination.

But with the non-Churched, those who haven't had the same indoctrination, I get to instead preach the Gospel.  Sure, I still have lots of mindsets, worldviews, patterns, ideas, and practices to correct, but much of it isn't religion-based and therefore easier to deal with.

Yes, I love the church.  I love the Churched.  I really, really do.  There are people in my head right now who I love, and I don't see eye to eye with, yet I enjoy getting together and talking with them.  But I believe that my 'holy discontent' is to see non-Churched people 'get it'.  To see that spark of understanding, of the work of the Holy Spirit in their eye, to lead them to Jesus and His Gospel that's pure and true.  That's what I want to live for.