We talk about the motives that bring people to this podcast, narrative-focused trauma care, counseling, and discipleship. We love the desires that drive us, and we also name the risk. When we use Jesus as a tool to get a specific outcome, we shrink the gospel. Drawing on C.S. Lewis, we explore that in seeking God first, we trust that the fruit we’re craving often gets thrown in as a byproduct.
From there we connect story work to the deeper work of sanctification. We revisit Jesus’ image of the plank and the speck and why untended wounds can turn into judgment, contempt, and relational harm. We also wrestle with the cost of discipleship, the ways truth can feel disruptive, and a simple litmus test for our “why”: if the problem vanished tomorrow, would we still want Jesus and the healing he offers?
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