What if the biggest obstacle to faith isn’t doubt, but disappointment? Not necessarily disappointment with God, though this happens, but disappointment with God’s people.
Maybe you’ve heard someone say something like this, or you’ve said it yourself:
“Jesus, yes. Church, no.”
Behind such a sentiment lives a story.
The number one reason people reject faith is not anything about God or Jesus, but what happens when God’s people serve as poor emissaries. When I talk to people about Christian faith and the church, one of the top reasons people give for rejecting the whole scene is how the people who talk most about Christianity seem least capable of living it.
I carried around such flesh wounds for years without naming them.
