Dealing with Doubts - The Church and the Deconstruction Movement, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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Summary
What would you say to a young person who has embraced the current worldview or had a bad church experience and now doesn’t believe in Jesus anymore? Chip will unpack this growing problem through the conclusion of his conversation with author and pastor John Dickerson. The two will encourage anxious parents and offer practical guidance to come alongside today's youth with uncompromising truth and radical love.
Main Points
The Deconstruction Trend:- Many young people, even from strong Christian backgrounds, are questioning their beliefs.
- This trend is occurring at increasingly younger ages.
- Parents and leaders must provide a non-judgmental environment for open dialogue.
- Listening and asking questions are vital to understanding the root causes of doubt.
- Empathy and understanding are more effective than immediate answers.
- Both intellectual and emotional challenges need to be addressed.
- Providing historical and philosophical context is essential.
- Acknowledging the negative aspects of Christian history while highlighting the positive impact of Christianity.
- Strong, supportive relationships are crucial for maintaining faith.
- Young people need close friends who share their values.
- Building relationships with those outside the Christian community is important.
- Encourage open conversations and probing questions.
- Pray for God to bring supportive relationships.
- Model authentic faith.
- Address hypocracy in the church.
- Be willing to apologize for personal failures in modeling faith.
- Mentoring is important.
- Partnering with good college ministries is important.
- A vibrant faith modeled by parents has a strong influence.
- Admitting past failures and seeking forgiveness can open doors.
- Persistent prayer and support are essential for those struggling with doubts.
- God can use these challenges to strengthen faith.
- Parents and church leaders must actively engage in the lives of young people.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About John Dickerson
John Dickerson is a prize-winning research journalist, a seminary-trained pastor, and a frequent commentator in national news outlets such as USA Today. Dickerson is the author of Hope of Nations, Jesus Skeptic and serves as the lead pastor of Connection Pointe Christian Church in the Indianapolis metro area.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | A mother came to me recently, completely distraught, saying, the way the world's going, I'm |
| 0:07.5 | so afraid that my child won't walk with God. |
| 0:11.2 | So many people are leaving the faith. |
| 0:13.7 | What can I do? |
| 0:15.3 | If that's you, you don't want to miss today's broadcast. Thank you for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Engra. |
| 0:26.6 | Chip serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and discipleship ministry, helping |
| 0:31.6 | Christians develop an authentic faith. |
| 0:33.6 | You know, that desperate question, Chip shared, is repeated by many parents, pastors, and grandparents. |
| 0:40.3 | So today, we'll speak more hope and encouragement to those anxious about this next generation |
| 0:45.5 | through the second half of Chip's discussion with author and pastor John Dickerson. |
| 0:50.0 | In fact, they have a lot to get to, so let's get going. |
| 0:52.7 | Here's Chip with the remainder of his interview, the church and the deconstruction movement. |
| 0:58.2 | It's so interesting at times when I'll hang out with some people that are very strong on social justice. |
| 1:04.3 | And I get it. |
| 1:06.3 | They were pounding the table on some of these values and attacking Christianity. And I want to say, pause. Do you know |
| 1:13.7 | where that came from? Do you know where that came from? And so I think education really is important. |
| 1:20.7 | I think we've got to help people understand who is Jesus? What has he done? And what do you believe him to be? |
| 1:31.1 | Amen. It's so true. And one of the really unique things about this book, Jesus Skeptic, is it shows actual pictures and images of these |
| 1:38.1 | artifacts. Because we live at a time when if you tell a young person, hey, did you know Harvard was |
| 1:42.9 | actually started by a group of pastors? They were Puritan Christians. It was a Bible college, hey, did you know Harvard was actually started by a group of pastors? |
| 1:45.0 | They were Puritan Christians. It was a Bible college. And it's not just Harvard. Every single one of the |
| 1:49.6 | top 10 universities in the world were all started by Christians as Bible seminaries. They'll look at you |
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