Intro: Beauty Rises (The Hope in Our Scars)
The Hope in Our Scars (Aimee Byrd)
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Inside our church doors, hurting people are struggling to see Christ in their lives. Instead of giving the world a beautiful picture of Christ’s bride and a glimpse of his love for us, many see disillusionment, despair, and abuse. Look at our scars. Look at the scars on the church. How did we get here?
Up Next in The Hope in Our Scars (Aimee Byrd)
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S1: Disillusioned Disciples (The Hope...
What do we do when church isn’t what we thought it was? Many find that instead of the church helping us to make sense of the world, we can’t make sense of the church.
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S1 Conversations: Working through Dis...
Aimee Byrd and Nijay Gupta, Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, discuss disillusionment with the church and with God.
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S2: Boatloads of Shame (The Hope in O...
Why do we see so little repentance in the church when stories of hatred, cover-up, and abuse surface? The shame this produces chokes out our hope, making us feel like God doesn’t care enough or that we aren’t good enough. We can’t develop the healing scars we need. And then we miss
the good news.
