Bring the Baggage

Purpose and restart for people walking home with a past

You can name the day you got married. You can name the day your father died.

You cannot name the day you stopped.

There was no day. There was a Sunday you had something going on, then a stretch where you meant to get back and kept not getting back. A year went by. Then five. You built a decent life on top of it, and mostly you don't think about it, except at two in the morning, and at funerals.

This is a book about the parable everybody knows and nobody finishes, and about twelve badly qualified men who are the only honest picture in Scripture of what a disqualified person actually does on Monday morning.

You have already written the speech about what you are worth now.

This is a book about why nobody is going to take that deal.

Read the book All of it, free. Nineteen chapters, an introduction, and an appendix. No email, no sign-up, nothing to buy. If you'd rather sample it first, chapter four stands on its own. If tonight is one of the hard ones A page for right now. Nothing to buy, nothing to read but a few true things. Nineteen weeks The one move from the end of each chapter, collected. Free, nothing to sign up for. If you sit with people on the worst day Counselors, chaplains, funeral directors, group leaders, sponsors. Tell me where to send copies.

Who wrote this

Steve Fultz started preaching in country churches at fourteen. Degree in religion with the biblical languages, a master of divinity, a PhD in counseling psychology. Twenty-five years on church staffs as a youth, recreation, family, education, and executive pastor.

He left in 2006 and has not been back on a Sunday since.

He isn't writing to talk anybody into anything, and there is no chapter at the end asking you to find a church.