The Space For Grace Between Faith and Doubt
My friend Mike McHargue has written a book about his journey from being a born-again, Bible-believing, Baptist deacon to a doubt-filled atheist, who then became a sold-out, committed Jesus-follower. It's a book about losing faith and finding it again through science. It's also a book about how God never stops pursuing us. I was there when Mike first revealed publicly to a room full of pastors and pastor-types that he was an atheist, who also happened to be a deacon in his Baptist church where he also happened to teach Sunday school. He thought he would be reviled in that room, or at the very least that we would spend a bunch of energy trying to convince him that "God is not dead." Instead, we embraced him and affirmed him in his journey. We shared with him that we all had doubts, we all had questions and that many of us knew exactly what it was like to sit where he was sitting. That grace was unexpected for Mike, and it opened some door...