When a loved one leaves the faith
Today we live in an era where prominent Christians seem to “deconvert” from Christianity. That’s shocking enough but what are we to make of it when a loved one who once claimed to be a believer abandons the faith? Keith and Mark make sense of it all in episode 004 of “Keith Crosby: Out of My Mind.” Keith and Mark will discuss the following five questions:
- You had originally entitled today’s discussion “Deconstructing Deconversion” why the change?
- How does this connect with your previous podcasts on Critical Theory and Education and Critical Theory and the Church—and the Pulpit and Politics. I sensed in a theme in Season One, does this theme continue here? What’s the connection?
- Whether it’s a Rock Star Pastor like Josh Harris or the YouTube Celebrities who used to be with Campus Crusade, or CRU, or Marty Sampson, a worship music writer, singer, and active member of Hillsong has publicly denounced his faith on social media—or someone’s son or daughter or sibling or parents—or a loved one walks away, the larger questions are:
- What happened? What do we make of all this?
- Can you lose your salvation?
- Are you saying that these people were not saved in the first place? Because people would say that they sure seemed saved…
- What do you say to a parent or family member who’s heartbroken and bewildered by all this? Sometimes, I know from my own ministry, family was never really engaged in a student’s discipleship but other times I’ve seen it where a parent, or both parents did all they could, and their kids walk away. What’s your take on this?
