015 - Deconstruction: How Do You Help Someone Who's Losing Their Faith? With Ian Harber

11/01/22 • 18 min

How can we help someone who is deconstructing their faith? That is a critical question for any church leader today, and the topic of this episode.

My guest is Ian Harber, who was gracious enough to share his own story of deconstructing and rebuilding his faith in Jesus. Ian is part of the Truth Over Tribe team, and writes at Back Again with Ian Harber at https://ianharber.substack.com/. He also starts lots of interesting conversations over @ianharber on Twitter.

Ian has also put together a playlist of resources that helped him rebuild his faith on Spotify, titled Reconstructing Your Faith - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1nSlmL6Fh3EdZzv1nxHPxZ.

Good Ideas for Churches is a joint project between Matt Whitman's The Ten Minute Bible Hour and Eyes Up. Have a good idea? Something that's helped your church? Something that's made the Gospel make sense to people in your community? I'd love to hear from you! Shoot me an email at [email protected].

How can we help someone who is deconstructing their faith? That is a critical question for any church leader today, and the topic of this episode.

Ian has also put together a playlist of resources that helped him rebuild his faith on Spotify, titled Reconstructing Your Faith - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1nSlmL6Fh3EdZzv1nxHPxZ.

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016 - Why We All Must Think Like a Church Planter: One Story from Inner City Atlanta

Not all of us will be church planters, but we all need to shift our mindset to thinking like church planters. In the post-Christian west, fewer and fewer people have a context for Christian terms and meaning. My guest, Nathan Dean planted and served a church in downtown Atlanta for 12 years. He and his wife were very successful in explaining the Christian life in ways that were not just clear, but appealing. They're now planting Blue Mountain Church in Blairsville, GA. He's also written "The Song: The Story of Our Hope and Rescue," a picture book, to explain the biblical story to beginning readers.

Bonus: I want to connect with you! For the next 30 days (through Dec. 21) I have a spare number and I'd love to hear from you - (605) 484-0735. If you call during business hours, U. S. Mountain time I'll do my best to pick up. Let's have some fun!

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