We’re in part three of common experiences of deconstructing faith. Today we’re digging into the ins and outs of how your day-to-day life begins to change as well as getting intentional with personal practices and community after a faith shift.

Let’s dive into part 2 of this series and talk about some of the secondary stages of deconstructing your faith. Once you walk through the initial crisis and rediscover some of your identity, questions of what you believe and how to discern begin to surface.

Deconstruction is a buzzy word right now. Very hashtagable. But truthfully the idea of deconstruction has been around way longer than the phrase itself.

Faith deconstruction is the process of examining what you believe instead of taking it all at face value. Which quite honestly, is a good practice. Not practicing a posture of examining what you're told to believe is a straight shot to cult life, and we can all agree, cults = no good. So why is deconstruction both such a buzzword and so demonized right now? And what does deconstructing even look like?

Let’s look at 3 reasons for all the buzz and the first 4 common experiences of deconstruction…

I used to think faith was something to be grasped.

In fact, I've been in a lot of conversations committed to "putting handles" on a faith concept - bless it. It's from a good place that we want to make the concepts of a faith from an ancient origin easily applicable to our 21st-century lives. But I'm not sure grasping it should be the goal anymore.

When we say “faith over fear” are we actually saying “my fear over your fear?” Today, I have genuinely been asking myself this question and others. Is my position truly faith-based, or fear-based? Have I ranked my fears into what’s most terrifying to me, helping me determine my course of action, or am I truly placing my faith in God? Also, is it ok to rank my fears to help make my choices?