It is a joy to write about the church and how it is God’s unique expression of grace through the appointed founder or leader. Some are as unique as a fingerprint. Forword Christian Church in New Orleans is exactly that expression.
If you visit, for example, you could run into Rev. Rufus with the Golden Toofus, the bug-eyed, wild-haired alter ego of Rev. Larry Rodgers, Forword’s founder and senior pastor.
Rodgers grew up in a traditional church where “there were many legalistic rules and lots of traditions sprinkled with a little Bible,” he says. “That can be very dangerous.”…