The “D” stands for the four key distinctives of D-church:
The term also represents our efforts to “de-church” American cultural Christianity — which might be better called “Churchianity” as its public face is pastors and buildings rather than lives transformed by the gospel.
To be clear, I do love the church: both the abstract concept, as well our local, regional, and denominational instances of that concept. And I believe Jesus does too. I am deeply grateful for my current and former churches, and those who serve in them as faithfully as they know how.
But I strive to love the church the way Jesus does, presenting it holy and blameless unto Him. And to do that, I believe we need to become less full of ourselves and more full of Him.