What Does It Mean to "Deconstruct" Your Faith?

It’s become extremely popular for people to stereotype all evangelicals in negative terms, denying the validity of Scripture, creating “another Jesus” (2 Corinthians 11:4), highlighting only negative aspects of their evangelical family life, and ignoring the positive elements of church and family. 

Biblically, it’s called apostasy (abandoning the faith), but it’s become popular to call it “deconstructing” your faith. 

Christ told us to expect this persecution: “If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!” He warned us that “a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household” (Matthew 10:24-36).  

2 Timothy 3:1-5 further explains this sad situation: “There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” 

If you have been rejected by a friend or family member (as I have) who has “deconstructed” his/her faith, I encourage you to memorize Matthew 5:10-12. Please remember, dear Christians, that we are blessed when we are insulted for the Kingdom of God. Great is our reward in heaven!  

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