10 Things Your Childhood Pastor Didn’t Tell You (But Should Have)

1. The flavor of Christianity you grew up with isn’t the only flavor out there.

2. Visiting and exploring other Christian traditions is beneficial to your journey, not detrimental.

3. The Bible is notoriously difficult to read and understand.

4. There’s no such thing as a “plain” or “straight forward” way of reading the Bible.

5. The Bible actually does contradict itself– but that’s okay.

6. Jesus didn’t always agree with the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).

7. Jesus valued compassion and empathy over rule following.

8. The end-times stuff was all made up less than 200 years ago.

9. Jesus doesn’t care what political party you belong to.

10. Doubt can make your faith stronger.

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One Response to 10 Things Your Childhood Pastor Didn’t Tell You (But Should Have)

  1. Jason says:

    Man, these rules are too complex for a kid. I could talk about each one of them for an hour, at least.

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