What's God Got To Do With It? "What If My Faith-Life Is Different From How I Was Raised?"
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Leanne is back with Scott and Ketric for another episode of our "Ask the God Pod" series. This week they tackle a question many newcomers to faith share: "What if my faith-life is different from how I was raised?"
Raised in a Christian household, this question comes from a listener who grappled with uncertainty and doubt about her beliefs since leaving home. Struggling with feelings of guilt and obligation tied to her upbringing, she candidly expressed the internal conflict of adhering to a faith she's uncertain about.
Join us as we delve into the complexities of faith, exploring themes of personal conviction, authenticity, and the freedom to question and define your own spiritual journey. Through compassionate dialogue and insights grounded in both faith and reason, we aim to offer guidance and understanding to anyone navigating similar uncertainties on their path to spiritual discovery.
HOST: Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington
GUEST: Ketric Newell & Scott Stephens
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | If you want to go on a journey, if you're skeptical, don't worry. |
| 0:18.1 | Not here to preach, going Gonna keep it clean And talk miracles |
| 0:21.3 | Where faith meets all of nature |
| 0:24.5 | Get in touch with your creator |
| 0:26.7 | With a baking love and chew |
| 0:29.0 | She even speaks Hebrew |
| 0:31.2 | What's that got to do with it? |
| 0:36.2 | What's that got to do with it. Welcome back to what's God got to do with it. We are so fortunate to have Ketrick and Scott back to do with it. We are here for another episode of Ask the God Pod. We are so fortunate to have Ketrick and Scott back for this next episode, and I will link their episodes, because you will recognize them from other episodes of the God Pod in the show notes. But today we're here with a question from, and forgive me if I'm pronouncing your name wrong, I think it's S-D, E-S-T-E-E-E-S-D or S-D. S-A. S-A says, I've grown up in a Christian home, but I've really been unsure about God and my faith since moving away from home to go to university. I have this guilt of feeling like I should be Christian because that's how I grew up, but I am not sure if I actually believe it. So I'll go ahead and kick this one off. First of all, thank you so much for asking this. I can only imagine how challenging it is to be, you know, to have an upbringing that is one certain way. And then as you become an adult with your own set of beliefs and opinions, you're questioning. |
| 1:44.4 | So I think it's beautiful that you're questioning because, you know, that's what God is here |
| 1:48.0 | to do. He's here to answer questions and he love, to me, I believe he loves our curiosity, right? |
| 1:53.7 | So giving yourself permission to just be exploring and be experimenting. |
| 1:57.7 | And just from my own experiences, this was a big challenge for me growing up in a Jewish home. |
| 2:03.2 | I had a lot of that same guilt. |
| 2:05.2 | I'm like, oh my gosh, am I a bad Jew? |
| 2:07.1 | Because I'm exploring my own faith down a Christian road, right? |
| 2:10.6 | And so my first piece of advice, or I should say, like, what I would invite you into |
| 2:15.2 | is really give yourself permission to be, |
| 2:18.5 | air quote, selfish, right? And give yourself permission to decide what's right for you and |
| 2:23.7 | explore this on your own. And I know it's so much easier said than done. But just because you |
| 2:29.3 | learned a certain way of thinking growing up, it doesn't mean that you don't have agency to create a new relationship |
| 2:36.2 | with God right now. And that's also what I wanted to invite you into is like what if it wasn't |
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