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Today, we are honored to bring you Lindsay's story. Lindsay experienced church trauma early in her

life. However, despite her past hurt, Lindsay persevered and desired to grow with and belong to a church

family. While her story is alarming,

her jubilant and bold spirit is an encouragement for all of us. I'm Jay Coyle, and this is

the Bodies Behind the Bus podcast. I am all about blessed subtraction.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Marseville bus.

And by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

You either get on the bus or you get run over by the bus.

Those are the options.

But the bus ain't going to stop.

You either get by the bus. Those are the options. Put the bus ain't going to stop. You either get on the bus until you get run over by the bus. Those are the options. Put the bus that can stop.

All right, Lindsay, thank you so much for joining us.

We are so honored to have you.

And we wanted to start a little bit talking about your history with the church, because you

definitely have a unique family history, and we'd love for you to expand on that.

Yeah.

So thank you so much for having me on as well. I grew up in the Midwest and

in a family that highly valued church, I would probably say that was church involvement was the

most paramount value of our family. And when I was about six years old, we were going to a non-denominational Bible

church for the vast majority of my childhood. We attended evangelical non-denom churches.

And at this church, where I had been born and raised up into where all my friends were. My parents and our entire

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