#192 Escaping Legalism and Cult-like Teachings, with Jinger Duggar Vuolo
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Jinger Duggar Vuolo grew up in the spotlight on the popular television show, "19 Kids and Counting." As she grew into adulthood, she began to question the strict, legalistic, and cult-like teachings of Bill Gothard in which her family was steeped. Instead of deconstructing her faith, Jinger took the difficult path of untangling truth from false teaching, and faith from fear. She joins the podcast to share her story and some encouraging advice for others who might be questioning and recovering from false and harmful teachings. Melissa Dougherty joins as co-host!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Elisa Childers Podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core |
| 0:12.6 | beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with |
| 0:16.7 | clarity, kindness, and truth. |
| 0:18.7 | And today's episode is brought to you by Impact 360, who creates life-changing summer experiences |
| 0:23.6 | plus a gap year program for students go to Impact360.org to learn more. |
| 0:29.0 | I am so excited about the conversation that I just got to have with Ginger Dugger Vuelo. |
| 0:35.6 | Now many of you may know her from the reality show, 19 Kids and Counting. |
| 0:41.2 | She basically grew up on TV as a part of the reality show of the family of the Duggers. |
| 0:46.4 | They grew up as a really connected with the teachings of Bill Gawthard. |
| 0:52.5 | And I honestly, before I read her book, I didn't know that much about that whole world |
| 0:57.1 | and so her book was very enlightening. |
| 0:58.7 | It's called Becoming Free Indeed My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear. |
| 1:04.7 | And so I, there were some things in this conversation that really stood out to me, that I hope |
| 1:09.8 | will really minister to you. |
| 1:11.6 | One thing that really stood out to me about Ginger's story is that as she became aware that |
| 1:16.6 | some of the teachings of Bill Gawthard and that whole gothardism and that whole kind of culture |
| 1:21.9 | were very unbiblical and even abusive. |
| 1:25.1 | She didn't just deconstruct the whole thing and throw out her faith. |
| 1:28.0 | In fact, she doesn't use the word deconstruction. |
| 1:30.4 | In her book, she calls it disentangling. |
| 1:32.9 | In fact, that's in the tagline of the book, My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear. |
| 1:37.3 | So instead of choosing deconstruction, she did the hard work of taking years to go to |
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