What do you do when Christianity hasn't lived up to your expectations, and the church, which is supposed to be a place of healing, instead has left deep and permanent wounds?

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's. And joining me today is

Lena Abu Jammra, author of Fractured Faith, a very personal account of Lena's near deconstruction

of her faith. As you'll hear, Lena was on staff at a multi-site megachurch in the Chicago area.

Everything was going right. She was in the inside circle and friends with the well-known

pastor and his wife. People were getting saved. Her Bible teaching ministry was taking off.

And then she saw corruption at the top. And rather than look the other way and stay,

Lena left. And slowly, over the next few months and years, the pain set in, and her faith began to falter.

Where is God in the middle of our pain? How can Christians act in such cruel and callous ways?

And what do you do when your story turns out the opposite of what you wanted or expected?

I'm going to explore these questions with Lena, but first, I'd like to thank the sponsors of this podcast, Judson University and Mark Ward of Barrington.

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dot com. Well, again, joining me today is lina abujamra a pediatric ear doctor who's now

practicing telemedicine she's also the founder of living with power ministries and she's the author

of several books including her latest fractured faith so lena welcome it's such a pleasure to have you. That's always fun to be with you, Julie.

And I should mention before we dive in that we are offering your book, Fractured Faith, as our

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