He pleads, “Please don’t reduce me to a theological footnote.” Rhett goes on to argue that we sometimes say things like this because we have to fit people into our theological system. One way Christians have responded is to say, “Oh, well they must never really have been a Christian in the first place.” As Rhett tells his story, he graciously asks us not to say things like this-because it is “dismissive.” “Jesus was as real to me as he possibly could be,” he says. What do we do when someone we thought was a committed Christian suddenly says they’re not anymore? When a high-profile Christian walks away from the faith, it causes significant confusion and doubt within the Christian community-one may think of other Christians, like pastor/author Joshua Harris and Hillsong United worship leader Marty Sampson, who have also recently announced that they are no longer Christians. What I would like to do instead is to suggest a few important lessons that I think we can learn from Rhett’s “anti-testimony.” In this post, I’m not going to respond to those specific objections, since many other Christians have already done that. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Among many other things, Rhett cites evidence for evolution and the unbelievability of the Bible as major factors in why he walked away from the Christian faith. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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