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Bottomline: Dealing with doubt is healthy and necessary.
Intro- Gideon poop story
“I’ve spent my whole life avoiding the people Jesus spent His whole life engaging.”
-Bob Goff
“Doubts are ants in the pants of faith; they keep it awake and moving.”
- Frederick Buechner
From BARNA- For more than half of those who have wrestled with doubt (53%), the time spent asking honest questions about what they believe about their religion or God made their faith stronger.
For another three in 10 (28%) it had no effect at all.
About one in 8 (12%) lost their faith entirely, small minority (7%) say they held on to a weakened version of their faith.
We need to view doubt as an opportunity to deepen faith not as the death of faith.
People wants others to walk with them
Peter, Gideon, Moses, Thomas,
Ask questions
-Jesus always responded to questions and doubts with questions
-Nicodemus
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Walk along side them in love.
Jesus walked alongside peter...
Reason #6 – The church feels unfriendly to those who doubt.
Young adults with Christian experience say the church is not a place that allows them to express doubts.
They do not feel safe admitting that sometimes Christianity does not make sense.
In addition, many feel that the church’s response to doubt is trivial.
Some of the perceptions in this regard include not being able “to ask my most pressing life questions in church” (36%) and having “significant intellectual doubts about my faith” (23%).
In a related theme of how churches struggle to help young adults who feel marginalized, about one out of every six young adults with a Christian background said their faith “does not help with depression or other emotional problems” they experience (18%).
From BARNA- For more than half of those who have wrestled with doubt (53%), the time spent asking honest questions about what they believe about their religion or God made their faith stronger.
For another three in 10 (28%) it had no effect at all.
About one in 8 (12%) lost their faith entirely, small minority (7%) say they held on to a weakened version of their faith.
Pray that they will find the truth.
“Arguments won’t change people.
Simply giving away kindness won’t either.
Only Jesus has the power to change people, and it will be harder for them to see Jesus if their view of Him is blocked by our big opinions.”
-Bob Goff
The goal isn’t belief, its relationship.
If we believe Jesus is the truth, then we must trust that if people seek truth they will find Jesus.
“Arguments won’t change people.
Simply giving away kindness won’t either.
Only Jesus has the power to change people, and it will be harder for them to see Jesus if their view of Him is blocked by our big opinions.”
-Bob Goff
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