Is Christianity Good? Part 2 - "What Happened?"
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Andy Stanley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
First-century Jesus followers were convinced the message of Christianity was good news of great joy for all people. So why has it become it so easy to walk away from?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to your move where we help people make better decisions to live |
| 0:05.0 | with fewer regrets. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Andy Stanley and I'll be your guide. |
| 0:08.9 | You know when Christianity was originally introduced it was introduced as good news. |
| 0:13.7 | The more more people are wondering if it's really all that good and if you are one of those |
| 0:18.2 | people well I have some good news stick around and we'll talk about it right here on your |
| 0:22.6 | move. |
| 0:27.9 | Now a couple of weeks ago I finished a book written by an ex-pastor who's become an atheist |
| 0:34.8 | and in the book he tells a story and I don't know why I'm so fascinated with Deconversion |
| 0:38.0 | stories but he tells this whole story it's a long book it's wonderful he's so transparent |
| 0:42.6 | but in the part where he tells his story he had the dilemma of how do you he was in ministry |
| 0:47.0 | slowly losing his faith and he was still in ministry when he lost his faith and so he |
| 0:50.8 | tells that journey and it's heartbreaking as you might imagine but he tells the story |
| 0:55.5 | about how he told his family so he told his wife they eventually got divorced he remarried |
| 0:59.6 | later but the most sort of gut wrenching like I had to just stop you know part with when |
| 1:06.2 | he told his mom so he tells his mom that he's deconverting from Christianity and she's |
| 1:11.7 | not it just doesn't bother her the way that he thought it would and very soon after he |
| 1:17.3 | told her that he had deconverted from Christianity she'd deconverted as well and she expressed |
| 1:24.0 | as he explains in the book she expresses her relief of giving up this faith and all the |
| 1:29.8 | baggage that came with her version of Christianity and at one point she says and this is a quote |
| 1:36.8 | she says it's wonderful because I don't have to hate anymore it's wonderful to be free |
| 1:44.5 | of this this religious burden because I don't have to hate anyone anymore so I was talking |
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