Many deconstructors find a new way forward by re-constructing their faith from the ground up, slowly, carefully laying one brick on another until they form a Christian faith that they find consistent with Jesus and what the church should and can be (all over again).
O, that someone had been saying these things 85 years ago in a Baptist church in Detroit Michigan! The "certitudes" preached in so many ways were devastating for this little girl trying to be sure she was saved and would not have to go through the tribulation on her own. When faith and certitude are made virtually synonymous, the enemy of our souls must be smiling big time.
I have recommended Proper Confidence to many folks. The men I have taken through it have found it tremendously life-giving. In his brilliant essay, "The Maniac," Chesterton writes that "The madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who lost everything but his reason."
O, that someone had been saying these things 85 years ago in a Baptist church in Detroit Michigan! The "certitudes" preached in so many ways were devastating for this little girl trying to be sure she was saved and would not have to go through the tribulation on her own. When faith and certitude are made virtually synonymous, the enemy of our souls must be smiling big time.
Indeed, Alice, indeed.
I have recommended Proper Confidence to many folks. The men I have taken through it have found it tremendously life-giving. In his brilliant essay, "The Maniac," Chesterton writes that "The madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who lost everything but his reason."