The woman who broke up with Jesus
- How should Christians and churches respond to someone who has broken up with Jesus?
A host reads aloud a Twitter thread from a woman who says she broke up with Jesus: raised by evangelical parents who became pastors, homeschooled through Joshua Harris's "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," married at 19 into a toxic relationship, remarried at 22 because "God doesn't use women unless they're married," her parents writing books on dominionism and seven-mountain theology, moving to Reading, California for Bethel's Supernatural School of Ministry, being made a worship leader, then enduring spiritual abuse and gaslighting until she became an atheist activist. Dan is invited on-air to begin the reading.
More on Deconstruction
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Deconstruction: Nicodemus, demolition, or examination?
- Is deconstruction like what Jesus did to the Pharisees, or is it more destructive, and why?
Mike's question: when Jesus showed up and presented a reality of following Yahweh that was completely foreign to the Pharisees, was that deconstruction, and is modern deconstruction like that or more destructive?
From No. 460 · 14 to 25 Mistakes From Wildin’
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Putting teaching over conversation
- When is 'just having a conversation' really avoidance of what Scripture says?
The 'teaching over conversation' item gets another false-dichotomy verdict: people learn from teaching and then talk about it, so do both.
From No. 458 · 12 to 13 Mistakes From Wildin
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Don't take macro action based on micro analysis
- Am I taking macro action based on micro analysis?
A host introduces his principle — 'don't take macro action based upon micro analysis,' or 'don't take broad action based upon narrow analysis' — and the room tests it across examples.
From No. 450 · Good News of Narrow Focus
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Grace for deconstruction: separating church culture from the faith
- Has anyone ever approached you about deconstruction and asked for help?
A host admits the word 'deconstruction' irritates him but offers a grace-filled reading: many who use the term come from large celebrity-pastor church cultures where the culture…
From No. 450 · Good News of Narrow Focus