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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Navigating Faith Deconstruction with Your Loved Ones (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Deconstruction remains one of the most controversial and divisive issues facing the church today. The result has been heartbreaking for families. Apologists Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett help Christians understand what’s happening and how to respond with clarity, confidence, and compassion.

 

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0:00.0

And so we want to encourage those out there who may be in a situation that feels impossible,

0:07.0

feels hopeless, just be encouraged that we serve a God who raised Jesus from the dead.

0:13.0

Welcome to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

0:16.0

Today, Elisa Childers and Tim Barnett are back with us again,

0:19.0

and we're looking forward to hearing more of their insights about how we as Christians can understand and respond to the deconstruction

0:26.7

movement. Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller.

0:31.0

You know, John, the why we are covering this kind of content is because we have a heart for the

0:36.3

culture. We have a heart for evangelism and discipleship.

0:40.0

Those are two core strategy efforts here at focus, along with marriage, parenting, and

0:44.2

helping children in foster care and in the womb, et cetera, helping that mom make that decision

0:48.5

for life.

0:49.7

All of this is connected into a Christian worldview.

0:52.5

I mean, you marry from a biblical standpoint,

0:55.0

hopefully you parent from a biblical standpoint. And today we want to reinforce those things

1:00.8

that are truth right out of scripture that we cannot jettison. And if folks didn't hear the

1:07.1

program last time, go back and listen because we talked about a movement that is occurring

1:12.1

within our culture to deconstruct faith. And some of it's coming right from the pulpit.

1:17.9

And we have got to be better acquainted with those methodologies so that we can, one, live our

1:25.5

faith out better and then be able to parent our teens, our 20-somethings

1:30.3

in a way that helps them to overcome this deconstruction movement.

1:34.3

And as I mentioned, we have Elisa Childers and Tim Barnett with us again, and they are both

1:40.3

parents and apologists and defenders of the faith, and they engage in those social media

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