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# And we're back on Substack.
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/and-were-back-on-substack/
- Published: 2025-02-28T11:01:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-24T23:51:29.000Z
- Description: or how sometimes you have to make hard decisions.
- Author: Christ John Otto
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1784937001272, #Import 2026-07-24 23:50

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThank you for your prayers.  
  
There is an old "preacher story"  
about a city man visiting a successful farm  
in the country.  
The city slicker said to the farmer:  
"Wow,   
God sure blessed you with a wonderful farm."  
The farmer wryly replied:  
"You should have seen it when God had it without me."  
  
I have been "living by faith" *a la* George Muller  
for over eighteen years.  
I don't discuss it as much as I once did.  
I live by faith to do what I do.  
I don't live by faith  
**to live by faith.**  
  
I have a purpose:  
to raise up an army of artists who will build  
Jesus a throne in the earth.  
**I make disciples**  
who are called to shape and transform culture.  
And lately   
I have been reminded that outside our merry band,  
folks still do not understand   
why making Christian disciples in the arts matters.  
  
I have to tell the story more effectively,  
and to a bigger audience.  
And so,   
I am back on *Substack*,  
because my target audience hangs out here.  
  
Your inner life  
**determines your creative output.**  
And I would also argue,  
the inner life of our civilization  
manifests the same way.  
  
A big part of my work   
**is telling the story,**  
and I have been through about ten platforms  
that I use for storytelling.  
Email has become marketing and not content.  
  
I loved publishing on Ghost,  
and for the first time  
the Friday email really   
looked like what I wanted to publish.  
But we were losing   
subscribers and money.  
Bummer.  
  
And so my Friday emails are being  
pruned  
weeded,  
and hopefully heading into a fruitful spring.  
Faith requires making decisions  
**and being wise.**  
  
Sometimes in your walk with God  
you have to make choices and decisions.  
And they all require wisdom.  
I have to bring all my decisions to God  
and ask for his perspective.  
Never go forward without the Lord's guidance.  
  
And so,  
I am back to *Substack*.  
  
There are more changes ahead as we lay a new foundation  
for Belonging House:  
More details in March.  
  
In the meantime,  
you can still join us for prayer and worship.  
You can still listen to my [Sunday teaching](https://www.youtube.com/@belonginghouse?ref=belonging.house).  
You can still [help out](https://buy.stripe.com/6oE9EG6ObfnF2nSbII?ref=belonging.house) as the Lord moves you.  
  
Thanks for being part of our successful garden.  
  
He Never Fails,  
  
Christ