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The Unfolding

Page 14: Jason and Sallie Hanson

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

For Jason Hanson being a Christian wasn't about being transformed by God. It was more about believing he was better than other people. After pushing away doubts and questions for years, he finally told his wife Sallie he was an atheist. He began a journey to find out what was true. What he discovered changed his mind, but it would take God to change his heart.

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Page 14 of the unfolding is the story of Jason and Sally Hansen.

0:04.5

So when I realized how wicked a person I was, I mean, that's when my heart broke,

0:08.9

and that's truly when God showed up, and he changed my heart.

0:12.1

And that's the moment that the color came back in the room.

0:15.5

I mean, it was literally like a light switch went on.

0:18.5

God's story has been unfolding.

0:21.6

Since the beginning of time.

0:24.6

He invites you to be a part of it.

0:31.6

Another page in the unfolding. God is all about transforming. For Jason Hanson, the arc of transformation runs from a church

0:49.8

pew through atheism, all the way to walking away from a lucrative career to serve God and love

0:56.1

others doubts pain the suffering we experience in life they had all led jason to question his faith

1:01.9

and when the doubts finally tipped the scale he told his wife sally he'd become an atheist and that set

1:08.1

him on a journey to find out truth here's's Jason and Sally. I was eight years old

1:13.8

when my mom passed away and I have two brothers and a sister. And my dad had had a really rough

1:22.2

childhood and then obviously a tough life as a young adult with losing his wife and having four young

1:29.4

children. And so he didn't handle it very well and became an alcoholic and struggled in a lot of

1:35.2

ways. Eventually he kind of left the family and we were left to be adopted or go to foster care.

1:47.0

And fortunately I was taken in by my aunt and uncle. And that's when I first started going to church. You know, I'd been to church, you know,

1:52.0

for Easter or Christmas or something, but had never really went to church and didn't know about

1:57.0

Jesus and, you know, read the Bible or anything. And, you know, that was like the opportunity

2:03.0

where I thought, oh, well, maybe my mom's in heaven. So, you know, I want to be a Christian so I can

2:08.8

see my mom again. But that's as far as it went. And I really looked down on my dad and others that, you know, struggled with things.

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