Deconstruction - Shaken Series (Part 1)

Restore Community Church

If you google the word deconstruction, and scroll down, it’s not long before you see the word deconstruction used in combination with Faith. Deconstructing Faith…. Google calls it a ‘deconstruction movement.” It’s a thing, particularly in America.
Embracing the process of deconstructing faith is the purpose of this series.
Faith does not exist without doubt. Faith and doubt are dependent on each other. Faith chooses to believe in spite of doubt. And because doubt is required for faith to be real, sometimes it feels like our faith is teetering on a thin line between doubt and belief. And when we get hurt by the church, when we see christians behave in unloving ways, when the church as an institution behaves badly, when christian leaders fall, abuse or misuse power, when we equate faith with politics or when we see faith used as a tool to control and manipulate….well understandably, our faith is SHAKEN.
Or when we have hope for God to save us our our loved one from this horrible diagnoses and he doesn’t, or we lose the job even though we did nothing wrong, or no matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to make it financially, or our children question everything they have been taught, or nothing about following Jesus seems to be what you signed up for, our faith is SHAKEN
And when this happens it’s time to deconstruct.
For the purpose of this series we are using this definition of deconstruction: Deconstruction is an evaluation of our core beliefs, taking away everything that is not true, and leaving us with a faith that is real.
Deconstruction is personal. It hits close to home.
We all have either gone through this, are going through it or know someone who is going through this.
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