What do you do when the Christianity you signed up for is not the Christianity you feel like you're experiencing?  "Religion" has conditioned us to just keep your chin up, don't ask why, keep pressing on, and eventually God will come through.   That may work for some small moments in life, but eventually life's hardships will hit and you might find yourself a little broken and confused about your faith.  WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE RULES AND it feels like GOD DOESn'T?

  In this episode & the next, we dive into a very REAL topic of what to do when the "formula" of following what you've been taught a "Good Christian Does" leads to heartbreak instead of the rescue you expected, and how to process the pain and disillusionment that can attach to your faith.  The good news is, God is still good, even when it doesn't feel like it. (Just ask David in Psalms!) But the journey of really GETTING that God is good, still present, and still FOR YOU can be messy, and that's ok.  Author Tiffany Yecke Brooks shares about how deconstructing your faith and asking God hard questions can be the greatest journey for rooting your faith even more deeply in the authenticity of knowing God for who He really is, and not limiting him to the religious genie our human natures can try to reduce him to.  

This is part 1, where we tackle some things like:

-Why well intentioned Christians can end up hurting in their faith and how to navigate that

-Why it's not really helpful to just take whatever your Pastor says as gospel truth, but instead, to go and test it.  (The Bible actually tells you to!)

-Some commonly believed misnomers in the faith that create burdens instead of freedom

-What ACTUALLY is legalism and how to identify it in our belief systems.  

-And a great life hack for writers!

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