After Doubt

Is there a way to walk faithfully through doubt and come out the other side with a deeper love for Jesus, the church, and its tradition? Can we question our faith without losing it? Award-winning author, pastor, and professor A. J. Swoboda has witnessed many young people wrestle with their core Christian beliefs. Too often, what begins as a set of critical and important questions turns to resentment and faith abandonment. Unfortunately, the church has largely ignored its task of serving people along their journey of questioning. The local church must walk alongside those who are deconstructing their faith and show them how to reconstruct it. Drawing on his own experience of deconstruction, Swoboda offers tools to help emerging adults navigate their faith in a hostile landscape. Doubt is a part of our natural spiritual journey, says Swoboda, and deconstruction is a legitimate space to encounter the living God. After Doubt offers a hopeful, practical vision of spiritual formation for those in the process of faith deconstruction and those who serve them. Foreword by pastor and author John Mark Comer.

From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith. ONE of the Best Spiritual Books of 2021—Spirituality & Practice "Will help you live fuller and breathe easier..” —Glennon Doyle Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every year. Faith After Doubt is for the millions of people around the world who feel that their faith is falling apart. Using his own story and the stories of a diverse group of struggling believers, Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor and now an author, speaker, and activist shows how old assumptions are being challenged in nearly every area of human life, not just theology and spirituality. He proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith, but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith. The four stages—Simplicity, Complexity, Perplexity, and Harmony—offer a path forward that can help sincere and thoughtful people leave behind unnecessary baggage and intensify their commitment to what matters most.

Visit http: //www.doubtafterdoubt.com for more information! FOR CHRISTIANS: "Doubt after Doubt" is required reading for anyone who puts their faith into the Bible and Jesus Christ. The journey is from the perspective of a former Christian. It will take you deep into the Bible for answers to Christianity's biggest challenges, while considering views from popular Christian authors and modern scholars. FOR PAGANS: As a Pagan you will find "Doubt after Doubt" a fantastic resource for helping parents, loved ones, friends or others understand why you rejected Christian doctrine and why Paganism aligns most closely to your values and beliefs.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 There are recovery programs for people who have lost a parent, sibling, or spouse. But no one has ever taught me how to grieve the loss of my faith. I was on my own. #2 I have received hundreds of emails from people who were fired or disfellowshipped from their church, including the author Michael Walker. I met with him to discuss his experience. #3 The small congregation that he was leading began growing numerically. But Michael began having doubts about the Bible, and he couldn’t suppress them. He began reading books that his tribe didn’t approve of, and he began secretly questioning his beliefs. #4 Your path into doubt may be different from Michael’s and mine. You may be Catholic, and it was the pedophilia scandals that rocked you, or the male hierarchy’s obsession with controlling women’s bodies, or the sense that the church was more interested in taking offerings than offering help to those in need.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 There are recovery programs for people who have lost a parent, sibling, or spouse. But no one has ever taught me how to grieve the loss of my faith. I was on my own. #2 I have received hundreds of emails from people who were fired or disfellowshipped from their church, including the author Michael Walker. I met with him to discuss his experience. #3 The small congregation that he was leading began growing numerically. But Michael began having doubts about the Bible, and he couldn’t suppress them. He began reading books that his tribe didn’t approve of, and he began secretly questioning his beliefs. #4 Your path into doubt may be different from Michael’s and mine. You may be Catholic, and it was the pedophilia scandals that rocked you, or the male hierarchy’s obsession with controlling women’s bodies, or the sense that the church was more interested in taking offerings than offering help to those in need.

Is there a way to walk faithfully through doubt and come out the other side with a deeper love for Jesus, the church, and its tradition? Can we question our faith without losing it? Award-winning author, pastor, and professor A. J. Swoboda has witnessed many young people wrestle with their core Christian beliefs. Too often, what begins as a set of critical and important questions turns to resentment and faith abandonment. Unfortunately, the church has largely ignored its task of serving people along their journey of questioning. The local church must walk alongside those who are deconstructing their faith and show them how to reconstruct it. Drawing on his own experience of deconstruction, Swoboda offers tools to help emerging adults navigate their faith in a hostile landscape. Doubt is a part of our natural spiritual journey, says Swoboda, and deconstruction is a legitimate space to encounter the living God. After Doubt offers a hopeful, practical vision of spiritual formation for those in the process of faith deconstruction and those who serve them. Foreword by pastor and author John Mark Comer.

The first principle of ministry leadership is love: love that emerges from life rooted in God. Healthy leadership requires a spirituality that enlivens us to move beyond rigid, dualistic frameworks. Robinson provides practical tools for cultivating spiritual practices that lead ministers into the world as agents of faith, hope, love, and justice.

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. forbid, forbear, avoid, prohibit, and prevent) have experienced in the history of English. Forbid, for example, was once followed by that-clauses, while in contemporary English it is in usual cases followed by to-infinitives except in the fixed form God forbid that ... Although a number of English verbs have undergone similar syntactic changes, the paths they have selected in their historical development are not always the same. Unlike forbid, the verb prevent is now followed by gerunds often with the preposition from. This book describes some of the most representative paths followed by different verbs of implicit negation and reveals the major complement shifts that have occurred throughout the history of English. It will be of particular interest to researchers and students specializing in English linguistics, historical linguistics, and corpus linguistics.