If Your Child’s Faith is Deconstructing
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Why are some kids deconstructing their faith? Danny shares some of the reasons why teens who grew up Christian have drifted from the faith. Also, Dr. John Marriott tells part of his own story with Jim Daly.
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| 0:32.5 | Well, you've likely heard the word deconstruction or deconstructing. What does it mean for our faith? And as parents, |
| 0:39.8 | what does it mean? I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our focus parenting team. |
| 0:45.1 | And Danny, this is something that is, it seems like, it's just like all the rage. Kids are saying, |
| 0:51.4 | I don't want the Christian faith, and they're walking away. |
| 0:54.7 | They've, quote, deconstructed. |
| 0:56.5 | What's going on? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, and I've gotten to talk to several adult children in this process, and the way that they're describing, they're deconstructing, is they're pulling away from certain aspects where they felt controlled. |
| 1:12.6 | It's, we're in a feeling culture, and if it felt uncomfortable, if it felt controlling, then it must be bad. |
| 1:20.6 | And so they're going into this place of not trusting what their parents or those adults, it's those people, the way that they did |
| 1:30.1 | Christianity, I can do Christianity totally differently, and I've been enlightened into this new |
| 1:35.2 | form of Christianity that accepts everything in all. And they're going towards a place of, |
| 1:42.6 | kind of create your own adventure type of Christianity. |
| 1:47.5 | And so they've lost trust in one that has a specific set of principles |
| 1:55.4 | and is tied to God's word. |
| 1:58.6 | And they've gone towards a following. and that's where social media can become |
| 2:03.2 | so deconstructing in just a child's life not only their brain their spiritual walks so many |
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