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Ep 140: The Most Important Thing About Us?
What if the most important thing about us is not what we say we believe about God, but the hidden ideas of God that actually govern our inner lives?
In this episode, Brian returns to one of Soil & Roots' founding questions: What do we really believe God is like? Drawing from A.W. Tozer’s claim that our actual ideas of God may be buried beneath “conventional religious notions,” this episode explores why deep discipleship requires more than correct doctrine or Bible knowledge. It requires the uncovering of our hidden, often unconscious, ideas about God.
Brian walks through several common distorted ideas of God, including God as the Great Taskmaster, God as the cause of suffering, God as a performance-based Father, and God as an angry judge. These ideas may not match our creedal statements, but they can quietly shape our emotions, behaviors, relationships, and spiritual lives.
This episode also challenges the common Christian response of “just read your Bible,” reminding us that even our ideas about Scripture itself must be uncovered and discipled. The Bible is deeply formative, but the goal of discipleship is not to become more like the Bible. It is to become more like the One to whom the Bible points.
This episode begins an important and intimate mini-series on uncovering our true ideas of God so we can become people of greater depth, honesty, freedom, and love.
Join us online!
Web: soilandroots.org
Substack: https://substack.com/@soilandroots
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soilandroots
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoilAndRootsPodcast/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soilandrootspodcast
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kStr423THe8lYQoLwf3J3?si=c79a43c83fa84a4e
#SoilAndRoots #DeepDiscipleship #DiscipleshipPodcast #SpiritualFormation
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By Brian FisherWhat if the most important thing about us is not what we say we believe about God, but the hidden ideas of God that actually govern our inner lives?
In this episode, Brian returns to one of Soil & Roots' founding questions: What do we really believe God is like? Drawing from A.W. Tozer’s claim that our actual ideas of God may be buried beneath “conventional religious notions,” this episode explores why deep discipleship requires more than correct doctrine or Bible knowledge. It requires the uncovering of our hidden, often unconscious, ideas about God.
Brian walks through several common distorted ideas of God, including God as the Great Taskmaster, God as the cause of suffering, God as a performance-based Father, and God as an angry judge. These ideas may not match our creedal statements, but they can quietly shape our emotions, behaviors, relationships, and spiritual lives.
This episode also challenges the common Christian response of “just read your Bible,” reminding us that even our ideas about Scripture itself must be uncovered and discipled. The Bible is deeply formative, but the goal of discipleship is not to become more like the Bible. It is to become more like the One to whom the Bible points.
This episode begins an important and intimate mini-series on uncovering our true ideas of God so we can become people of greater depth, honesty, freedom, and love.
Join us online!
Web: soilandroots.org
Substack: https://substack.com/@soilandroots
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soilandroots
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoilAndRootsPodcast/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soilandrootspodcast
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0kStr423THe8lYQoLwf3J3?si=c79a43c83fa84a4e
#SoilAndRoots #DeepDiscipleship #DiscipleshipPodcast #SpiritualFormation