A Night of Worldview: Deconstructing Faith

January 29, 2022 AM
Paul Gotthardt

A Night of Worldview: Deconstructing Faith

Part 1: What are the key ideas that need to be reestablished for tonight?

Part 2: Let’s explain the idea of deconstructing faith.

There are 4 primary ways Christians use the term deconstruction.

1. Deconstructing
2. Deconstructing
3. Deconstructing Influences to  Historic Christianity
4. Deconstructing Non-Christian to Discover Historic Christianity

Why are some people abandoning the faith? Why are some people angry and frustrated in the faith? Why are Christians dismantling their former belief system that was not anchored in biblical Christianity?

1. Christians are rarely trained in , critical  skills, and how to work through  and hard questions.

2. Many Christians have become or disillusioned with the version of Christianity they’ve encountered that is not historically biblical in orthodoxy or .

3. There is a lack of in the church and an emphasis on attractional services that create  minded Christians.

4. (who claimed to be Christians) are revealing by their actions that they were never Christians.

5. Another issue has been the lives of Christian who profess Christ but live like functional atheists.

6. Part of the issue is called “ deconstruction.” It’s a cultural encouraging people to abandon churches and their childhood faith.

Part 3: How should we respond to deconstructing Christians?

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