Finding Pastoral Hope in a Deconstruction Phase

Don't expect to come back to the same feelings you had before. You can get back but it might feel different and there's going to be a different way shaped that faith takes. Marcus Borg who grew up in a quite conservative Lutheran home in North America went right away from the faith in his I think early 20s, then was kind of lost and didn't quite know what was going on. And yeah, so that that journey is certainly possible and actual and does happen to people. Whether somebody in that position ought to go on being in ministry while that's going on,. That's really difficult because there's a sense of am I being a hypocrite to stand up on a Sunday morning