Nicki Koziarz: The 5 Best Decisions to Make When Life Is Hard
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🗓️ 26 August 2022
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| 0:00.0 | It's not our questions for God that messes up our faith, it's our questioning of God. |
| 0:06.8 | And there's a big difference, so he can handle our doubts, he can handle our questions, |
| 0:11.1 | he can handle our fears, our worries, our complaints, our grumbling. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that |
| 0:29.7 | matter most. I'm Ann Wilson, and I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com |
| 0:35.8 | or on our Family Life app. This is Family Life. Today. |
| 0:51.8 | So according to Barna, guess what percentage of Christians struggle with doubt in their |
| 0:56.5 | faith? My first thought, and maybe it's coming out of my own personal experience, is |
| 1:02.0 | it's pretty high. I think it's pretty high. I wouldn't have guessed that it's 65%. 65%. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah. Yeah, I would say at least that. And then listen to this, millennials, 38% currently |
| 1:13.6 | experienced about twice as much doubt as any of the other generational groups. And then |
| 1:18.4 | 23% of Gen Xers, 19% of Boomers, and 20% of Elders. Here's what I would want to know. |
| 1:26.7 | And we've got in our studio, a woman I think can answer this question. Nikki Cosiar's is back |
| 1:32.0 | with us. Welcome back to Family Life Today. Thanks for having me. And I'm guessing you're sort of |
| 1:36.5 | quoting maybe some stats from her book, flooded, which is the five decisions that we all need to make |
| 1:42.5 | when doubt is rising. That's sort of a rephrase of your subtitle. Here's what I want to know. |
| 1:48.5 | Nikki, do you remember if you wrote this at all, men compared to women without? Is there a difference? |
| 1:54.2 | I did not study that, but I would be interested to know that. Yeah, I looked it up. |
| 1:59.4 | I thought this was interesting or higher. 32% of men compared to 20% of women, which is interesting. |
| 2:07.3 | Why do you think that is Dave? I don't know. You would have to tell me from a woman's perspective, |
| 2:11.8 | but I know from a guy's perspective, it's all about logic often. Are you saying that we're illogical? |
| 2:18.7 | No, no, no. You just nailed it. No, it's like, you know, it's got to make sense. I got to be |
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