Hey there! If we haven’t had a chance to meet, my name is Aaron and I am a common pastor.

Read: not very impressive, terribly cool, ridiculously smart or any of the other things we pastors sometimes try to be.

The truth is I'm a very ordinary guy who struggles often and has failed regularly throughout my relatively short life. I've done a lot of dumb things — like repeatedly hopping onto moving trains as a child, chasing an intruder through our house butt naked, and a few other things of a more serious nature my wife warns she could easily recall.

Although my early years would have never suggested it, I’ve spent most of my adult life as a pastor, church planter, and initiator of kingdom mischief: helping start and lead a handful of churches, a seminary, a microchurch network, and an international collective of missionary pioneers. These days I serve on the strategic, teaching, and microchurch teams of Community Christian Church in Chicagoland, and as community pastor of our Downers Grove campus.

It's only by God's grace that I find myself blessed with an incredible wife, three wonderful kids, and the chance to follow and serve Jesus alongside some of the best people I've ever known, in a city we deeply love.

The truth is I'm a painfully ordinary man and pastor serving an anything but ordinary Savior.

This blog is where I process what I'm learning, unlearning, and relearning along the way, in hopes of helping fellow spiritual leaders and sojourners.

To my fellow sojourners — welcome!

A Quick Disclaimer

This is my personal blog. They do not necessarily reflect those of any organization I am employed by or associated with, so please do not hold any of them responsible for what I write. What I share on this site is simply where I am currently at in my own process learning and growing, succeeding and failing. Please note that I reserve the right to disagree with myself at any time.