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In Christ • Author: "Walking Through Deconstruction: How To Be A Companion In A Crisis of Faith" (IVP '25) • Pre-Order Book 👉
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🧵 What is deconstruction?
I want to have a better conversation about this.
I define it as:
Deconstruction is a crisis of faith that leads to the questioning of core doctrines and untangling of cultural ideologies which settles in a faith that was different than before.
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🧵When I first saw this map I realized I had been living in a bubble.
Both conservatives and progressives made it seem like America was the center of Christianity.
It’s not.
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One thing that scares me right now is knowing how Russia manipulated algorithms to divide our country during our own election.
That was the primer.
You better believe they’re putting that into play right now for propaganda about this war.
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Well, here we go. I shared some of my story over at
@TGC
.
I hope this resonates with all of us who feel lost between two worlds and gives hope that it’s still possible to follow Jesus.
I was an
#exvangelical
who left the faith of my youth for “progressive Christianity.” Then I returned. Here’s my
#revangelical
story.
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I think about the fact that Jesus didn’t start his ministry until he was 30 a lot.
And I’m thinking about it more and more as I get closer to 30.
He spent all those years beforehand growing “in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.”
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This is… not true.
Arius, Pelagius, Nestorius, and Marcion are all still heretics.
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The Liturgists helped me deconstruct but gave me nothing to rebuild except arrogance and a new progressive fundamentalism that had nothing to do with the real Jesus.
Ironically it was a deeper exploration of orthodox theology that helped me reconstruct a richer faith than before
I don't think I'm a progressive Christian anymore because when I try to listen to the Liturgists I get very annoyed very quickly.
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Not sure I’m ready to live in a world where John Piper and Tim Keller are the liberals.
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In light of an event in my town tonight:
If you want to cause an entire generation of Jesus followers to deconstruct and lose them, call Republicans “the only true believers” and mock everyone with a different perspectives.
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At first, you read the Psalms and wonder how the imprecatory Psalms could be inspired.
Then you see and/or experience abuse, oppression, and wickedness and it all makes sense.
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Criticize American Evangelicalism:
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“Hey look at this really cool thing in the Bible!”:
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In fact, America represents the *least* amount of Christians on a large continent. (Sorry Australia)
Latin America and Africa have twice as many Christians and Asia has over 100M more Christians.
Christianity is not white and it is not American.
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5 shifts that have dramatically changed my faith for the better 🧵
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🗣️ you don’t have to choose between penal substitutionary atonement and literally any other atonement theory especially christus victor maybe they’re all right and it’s like turning a diamond and viewing a complex thing from different angles stop making false dichotomies
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This is wild.
Nearly half of US Evangelicals say Jesus isn’t God. A 13% jump in just 2 years.
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There is a White American Christianity™️ that is a mixed bag at best and at worst has been used for horrible oppression (that’s what we call Christian Nationalism).
But Christianity itself is global and the most ethnically diverse movement in the world.
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@jorymicah
Wait, sorry, are you implying that Jews want to enslave the whole world? Am I reading this right?
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J***** H***** put together a lead generating ebook for an online course to help people deconstruct their faith for the low cost of just *checks notes* $275.
You wanna make me really cynical?
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I’ll take “The Lord is my rock, I will never be shaken”
over “I’m finally free to be my authentic self”
any day.
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• Wesley and Edwards were contemporaries.
• Edwards owned slaves. Wesley opposed slavery.
• Wesley mentored Wilberforce.
• Wilberforce spent 25 years working to abolish slavery in England (and did it).
John Wesley (1703-1791), a contemporary of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), actively opposed slavery, while Edwards supported slavery. I've grown to appreciate Wesley more and more over the years.
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If this isn’t what you mean by Christianity I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing.
I listened to this sermon from
@MattChandler74
this morning and I’ve been thinking about this explanation of discipleship all day. Maybe it will help you like it helped me.
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Deconstruction isn’t a process you can warn people to avoid or encourage people to do.
It’s a crisis that happens to you.
You don’t wake up and decide to deconstruct your faith. You’re deconstructing before you realize it.
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The same goes for Christian Nationalism.
You really think God favors us in this country more the believers around the world that outnumber us by magnitudes?
It’s a blasphemous illusion to think such a thing.
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So when we’re deconstructing the Bible and church and basic Christian doctrine, you have to ask:
Are we trying to sort through the American misuse of these things?
Or are we throwing out what hundreds of millions of people who aren’t like me at all hold onto for dear life?
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I remember when adults told us not to believe everything we saw on the internet but now they share the most obviously made up info meme on COVID and just say “interesting...”
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Seeing friends get radicalized into both the far left and far right. It’s so sad.
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We’re so excited to welcome Alastair Harber into our family. He was born yesterday and we couldn’t be more grateful for this little boy.
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@lyssasphere
I genuinely love that you have discovered the best way to read the Bible with this chart.
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Drank a whole cup of coffee during church today to the glory of God.
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I completely agree with this article from
@TGC
.
It just makes me wonder why it's so difficult for some to apply the exact same logic to Jonathan Edwards and his slave-owning?
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“I’m a Red Letter Christian. Jesus’ words are the most important in the Bible.”
Okay, I agree.
Let’s look at what Jesus said about the rest of the Bible. 🧵
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It’d be arrogant of me to think that because the American brand of Christianity I’ve been exposed to has significant failures that the whole thing is false.
We, Americans, are the minority in Christianity. Do we really think we represent the whole thing?
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“Megachurches profit off you by controlling you with fear!
Buy my online course for just $275 to break free of their restrictive rules.”
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I wonder how much “deconstruction” as a category would decline if evangelicalism embraced the stages of faith as categories for spiritual formation.
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I voted third party for the first time ever today. I should have years ago.
@AbernathyforTX
from the
@AmSolidarity
.
Rs & Ds continue to get more extreme and I can’t in good conscience vote for either until they leave their extreme ideologies behind.
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We baptized 10 people today.
9 were Gen Z.
I know the stats.
But God is still saving.
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Please chase down the questions you have about your faith. By all means do it.
But just remember that narcissistic megachurch pastors aren’t the only snakes trying to profit off you.
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So even when the church around me seems like it’s failing, The Church around the world is thriving.
And I’ll always be part of that Church.
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Overwhelmingly sad,
overwhelmingly encouraged.
He finished the race.
Well done, Tim Keller.
Health Update: Today, Dad is being discharged from the hospital to receive hospice care at home. Over the past few days, he has asked us to pray with him often. He expressed many times through prayer his desire to go home to be with Jesus. His family is very sad because we... 1/3
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It’s why when I’m at the most discouraged in the American church—which is sadly far too often—I’m reminded that we’re not the representative.
Faithful men and women in Christ around the world who don’t even have a fraction of the privilege that I do are the real representatives.
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Since we’re still on the subject, this is a valid question.
But here’s the deal:
Every Christian tradition agrees that the inerrant word of God is *at least* the 66 books in the Protestant Bible.
Go ahead and debate the others.
But there is no question about ours.
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I’m so behind on the latest hot topics. Gotta catch up.
Simone Biles 👍🏻
Capital Insurrection 👎🏻
Ted Lasso 👍🏻
Mark Driscoll 👎🏻
Olympics 👍🏻
“You are Christ” 👎🏻
Did I miss anything?
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It doesn’t feel like a calm and level-headed process of examination.
It feels like the existential rug being pulled out from under you.
You can’t avoid it and you can’t choose it. All you can do is become aware of it and go from there.
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@michaelgungor
I wonder where he would get the idea of Jesus’ blood being something Christians think about and find precious.
Surely not from Jesus himself giving us his body… and blood… and saying something about remembering him… right?
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I want to be careful saying this for a few reasons, but I’m so serious—the Book of Common Prayer has kindled a spiritual hunger in me in a way that I haven’t felt for over 6 years.
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I’m a big fan of The Holy Post and everyone involved with it. They talked about Alisa Childers’ deconstruction article today, and I have a bit of a beef with both of them. There’s a part of this I think everyone seems to miss that.
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What’s your millennial dad rock band list? We gotta raise these kids right.
Here’s mine:
Coldplay
The Killers
Death Cab for Cutie
Anberlin
Something Corporate
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Therapeutic Prosperity Gospel 🧵
There’s a therapeutic prosperity gospel out there that say if you get enough counseling and coping mechanisms, everything will be easy and you’ll have the life of your dreams because you’ve finally dealt with your trauma.
Don’t buy it.
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A REAL revival is only when [thing that I care most about] happens!
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Less lights, more liturgy
Less cool, more community
Less marketing, more mission
Less tactics, more theology
Less fandom, more formation
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When you finally untangle your faith from conservative ideology only to become indistinguishable from progressive ideology.
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Harry Potter was cancelled by the right in the 00s and by the left in the 20s.
It’s never a good time to be a Harry Potter fan 😔
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…and it’s causing them both to sound out of touch with what people are actually experiencing.
It’s neither a rational process if examination or a slippery slope to atheism.
It’s a crisis someone experiences.
Any definition and diagnosis that doesn’t include that is deficient.
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Jesus stood with the oppressed. All the oppressed.
And Jesus flipped the tables of the religious when they used God for their gain.
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Can’t overstate the unlock that this model of discipleship was for me when I first heard it ~7 years ago. This is my default definition of discipleship now.
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I’m a big fan of Christus Victor, I’m just not sure how you can read a book like Hebrews and not walk away thinking penal substitutionary atonement *maybe* just *might* *possibly* be a big part of what was going on at the cross. It’s everywhere in this book.
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I feel like this hasn't been said for a while so it's worth saying again:
・Wearing a mask
・Washing your hands
・Social distancing
・Not touching others
This is not fear. These practices are how you love your neighbor during a pandemic.
Let everything we do be done in love.
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I keep asking
@William_E_Wolfe
when was the last time he did the dishes and he refuses to answer.
His silence is deafening.
How can a man run a Christian nation if he can’t do the dishes??
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What is this guy doing??
Mike Pence's self-control is staggering. Who is like unto him?
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I'm not asking, "am I right?" but, "how am I being formed by this?"
The goal is to be formed into the image of Christ for the sake of others.
And that takes a lifetime.
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I’ve become extremely critical of the therapeutic culture, but let the record show, this is very very Wrong.
“There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD.”
— John MacArthur
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Here’s a list of Christian pastors & ministers to follow 🧵
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Wait,
- Augustine quote?
- Bible verse?
- Moment for prayer?
- Amazing Grace?
Isn't this guy supposed to be persecuting us?
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Once again, the data continues to show that The Narrative™️ is not as accurate as you would think that it is.
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One time in church, not long ago, we read Psalm 27 together. When we got to verse 10, I wept.
Because it’s my testimony.
Of both life’s pain and God’s goodness.
To those who have felt this, the Lord cares for you.
Estranged adult children:
What is the first sentence you would want to hear your parents say?
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Worth saying:
people who are able to celebrate other's wins without getting jealous,
those people are gifts.
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🧵 “I believe God is bigger than the Bible”
Counterpoint: I believe God is so big that we *need* the Bible.
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I’m convinced this story is about to be very normal.
I went from thinking the Bible was the most boring book ever to seeing the magic in it.
Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was going to be an educated person, I needed to know what it said. Though I was motivated to learn
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I’m begging you to read the historic creeds, confessions, and catechisms instead of “google atonement theories”
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@MarkDever
Big difference between being adopted sons and daughters of God and being the only begotten eternal Son of God. Yikes.
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Keep your metaphorical resurrection. I’m good. I don’t need it.
Give me the real thing. The one that happened in a real place at a real time and with a real body. That’s the only thing that has the hope I’m looking for.
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🧵When someone is deconstructing their faith, the more non-anxious someone’s faith community is, the less intense their crisis will be.
The more fundamentalist it is, the more intense their crisis will be.
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Warning: You might be deconstructing the bubble you grew up in, but the bubble you grew up in ≠ 2,000 years of Christianity.
Encouragement: The Lord loves you. He is with you. There is peace to be found in Christ. Keep going.
If faith deconstruction has ever been a part of your story - what’s one warning and one encouragement you’d give?
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@ericmetaxas
I don't understand. You wrote a... biography... of someone who followed... Jesus. But you don't know Jesus'... skin color?
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Rethinking things about church? 🤔
Great! 😃
You’re not deconstructing 😕
You just care! 🥰
Make sure you talk to your pastor about how you want to help make things better 👍
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@JoashPThomas
I just don’t get it man. If you can get theology just as good if not better from theologians who didn’t own slaves, why wouldn’t you?
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Apologetics in 2002: "Here are 5 proofs for the existence of God."
Apologetics in 2022: The Book of Ecclesiastes
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This feels like a weird thing where I have to start a hashtag like
#Revangelical
which is just a whole bunch of people who left fundamentalism for the Liturgists only to realize how shallow they are too and came back to orthodoxy.
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There are 3 really easy ways to grow a social media following:
1. Oversharing your personal life
2. Chasing scandal, controversy, and conspiracy
3. Adding your voice to every single thing that happens
It's worth asking, "Who am I becoming by doing this?"
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This isn't a rule or anything but I'm increasingly convinced that staying in your hometown forever is a really good thing and it should be more normal.
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One of the most interesting things to me about The Great Dechurching—40 million people leaving the church in the last 25 years—is knowing this fact and also turning 30 next month.
That means that the largest religious shift in American history happened entirely during my
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Jesus vs. Paul, you say?
How about Jesus through Paul by the Spirit affirmed by the Apostles and accepted by the churches?
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