Actually Believing God Loves You Changes Everything: Jeff Chu
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast
Jen Hatmaker
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
“Does Jesus really love me?” Journalist Jeff Chu has asked himself this question countless times since he was a kid. Jeff grew up immersed in a family of theologians, where knowing and sticking to the Bible’s rules were prized currency. As Jeff approached high school, he realized he was gay. Over time, while he prayed for God to change who he was, Jeff threw himself into his work to escape his inner turmoil and realized he was a gifted storyteller who loved talking with people from all walks of life. A few years ago, Jeff found himself on the road, searching for the answer to his long-held question across America as he interviewed everyone from nice church ladies to members of the Westboro Baptist Church. And as he talked to more and more people about their spiritual beliefs, he concluded that yes: even though Jeff doesn’t feel like it some days, Jesus really does love us all. And if we actually believed He did, we would speak differently, tweet differently, love differently—in a nutshell, believing we’re loved would transform our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, my name is Remy. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom. |
| 0:09.3 | She writes books and speaks to cows, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people on |
| 0:15.0 | this podcast every week. |
| 0:17.0 | Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey you guys, Jen Hatmaker is here. |
| 0:23.8 | I am your host for the For the Love Podcast. |
| 0:25.8 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:27.6 | So right now we are in a series called For the Love of Faith Groundbreakers. |
| 0:34.4 | And we're talking with women and men who've explored their own faith and experiences and |
| 0:40.9 | they're coming away with questions that, frankly, sometimes really rattle our religious |
| 0:46.0 | cages and they're bumping up against long held tenets sometimes to see where the truth |
| 0:51.1 | is. |
| 0:52.9 | They've all wondered aloud if the status quo should remain so. |
| 0:58.0 | So all these people have expanded my definition of love and what it looks like to be a follower |
| 1:03.2 | of Jesus for sure. |
| 1:04.6 | I respect them so much. |
| 1:06.8 | This was a really carefully created docket of people that I wanted on this series. |
| 1:13.6 | So I invite them, every one of them on the show to share their wisdom because we can |
| 1:16.7 | just learn so much for them. |
| 1:18.5 | I know I have. |
| 1:20.1 | In order to introduce our next guest, I'm going to do something I've literally never |
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