#165 A Near Apostate Keeps the Faith through Church Hurt, Doubt and Addiction with Bobby Conway

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Alisa Childers

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After years of partying, Bobby Conway got saved at a Greg Laurie crusade as a teenager. From there, he became an evangelist, telling virtually everyone he would meet about Jesus. After becoming a Pastor and pioneering a successful apologetics YouTube channel, he went through a dark time of doubt, only to end up in an alcohol relapse that would threaten his family and ministry. In today's episode, Bobby shares the intimate journey that led him to almost leave the faith, and the reasons he would not end up as another deconstruction story and could not turn his back on the Jesus who saved him.

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0:00.0	And I had to come to a conclusion with, okay, why not be an agnostic then?
0:05.0	And I came to the place where I said, well, you know what?
0:08.0	Even the agnostic is certain about one thing.
0:11.0	He's certain there is an explanation.
0:13.0	He just doesn't know it. Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its
0:38.5	counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth. Today we're going to be
0:43.3	talking about triggers toward deconstruction, things that tend to catapult people into a deconstruction
0:49.6	process. I'm here with my friend and fellow apologist Bobby Conway. You may know him as the one-minute
0:55.2	apologist. He's also a pastor. And he has experienced a lot of these triggers in his own life,
1:01.3	yet he has stayed in the faith. Bobby, welcome. Hey, it is so good to be with you. And I am just
1:07.8	super stoked and excited watching what God's doing in your life. It's been so much fun.
1:14.1	Just hearing the great news about your book and bumping into people. Listen, you have been one
1:21.7	contagious Christian. Well, I hope it's a good contagious, right? Well, I remember watching the the one-minute apologist videos back when I first discovered apologetics and they were just so helpful to me. So it's great to get to work with you now. And we're here live in Cincinnati at the cross-examined instructor academy. But we were talking one day while we were here. And you mentioned something that I thought was very thought-provoking, and you
1:45.6	referred to yourself as a near apostate. Why do you call yourself that? Well, I literally
1:52.2	questioned whether or not I was going to be able to hold on. I can recall driving in my car one day
1:59.0	and the image of a spider soon to be snapped from its web
2:06.5	was how I envisioned myself in the faith. I felt like I was hanging by a strand as the undoing
2:16.0	of everything that was so dear to me was killing me.
2:20.3	And it was literally overwhelming, would lead me into some really dark nights.
2:28.3	And I would say I'd just find myself literally as a near apostate because I thought I was going to be an apostate.
2:36.9	I was scared and I would pray, God, please don't let that be the case.
2:41.9	And the pressure was so overwhelming, Elisa, because here I was pastoring a large church.
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