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The Alisa Childers Podcast

#73 A Progressive Christian's Reconstruction, With Ian Harber

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We've got another deconstruction/reconstruction story for you! On this episode, Ian Harber tells us about growing up in the Evangelical church only to deconstruct into progressive Christianity. After years of following progressive authors and podcasts like The Liturgists, Ian found progressive Christianity to be more shallow than the faith he walked away from, and eventually reconstructed to a vibrant historic Christian faith.

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starting out kind of in remotely orthodox land and then just chipping away.

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Well, the Bible's not God's Word, it's human words about God.

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Hey friends, welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast. I am so excited to bring you this discussion

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today with Ian Harbor as he walks us through deconstructing out of an evangelical faith

0:40.1

into progressive Christianity but then reconstructing back to a historic faith.

0:45.5

It really blessed me to hear his story, his testimony and I think it's going to bless you

0:49.4

too.

0:50.4

But I want to take a moment before we jump into that to tell you about today's sponsor.

0:54.6

So Impact 360 is an amazing ministry that exists to help equip the next generation to live

1:00.6

out their Christian worldview in a culture that is becoming increasingly more hostile to

1:06.3

the Christian worldview.

1:08.0

So I want to tell you specifically about something they have online called the Gen Z lab.

1:12.6

So after launching in partnership with the Barna Group, some groundbreaking research

1:17.6

on Gen Z, we now know what this generation is facing.

1:22.5

We know what they're thinking about.

1:23.9

We know there are opinions on certain things but the question is, are we equipped to lead

1:28.2

them through the toughest questions that they're encountering every day?

1:32.2

And this is what Gen Z lab is for.

1:34.1

Impact 360 created it to help you understand the unique challenges that our kids are facing.

1:39.8

So you can go to impact360.org slash Gen-Z for more information.

1:45.8

To got a great episode for you today with Ian Harbor who is the communication director

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of a local nonprofit in Denton, Texas where he lives.

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