This one won her trust through his thoughtful, humble, and authentic approach. One day in a church where she was invited to sing, she was surprised to hear a pastor that seemed more calm, cool, and collected than the ones she'd heard all her life. She describes several experiences that she perceived to be more about getting an emotional response to the Gospel rather than one that could withstand the challenges of life and skeptics. Those experiences that did not seem to line up properly with the Bible did cause her to want to question and investigate more. The remaining chapters take the reader through Alisa's emotional and intellectual journey of dissecting her faith, investigating the truth of what she believed, and building her beliefs around what she discovered was true.īefore Alisa ever spoke to this progressive pastor, though, many experiences in ministry did seem amiss. As challenges came, she later discovered that the pastor was part of the movement called "Progressive Christianity." The challenges were not intended to strengthen her faith by addressing the challenges as a "devil's advocate," but they were designed to help her "deconstruct" her faith away from the traditional (and true) beliefs of historic Christianity. The challenges did not come from a skeptic, who she may expect to challenge her beliefs, but from the pastor of the church she was attending at the time. It wasn't until she was a new mother that her faith came under emotional and intellectual fire. She witnessed the changing power of the Gospel time after time and had no real reason to doubt that what she believed was true. She accepted Jesus at a young age and was immersed in Bible study and Church ministry from then through her teens and into her young adult years. Alisa begins recounting her journey by setting the stage.
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