Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers
Week 12: Chapter 12 — Reconstructing Faith: Coming Home to Orthodoxy
Read Chapter 12 of Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers. Key passages: Psalm 46; John 20:24-29 (Thomas's story); Romans 8:38-39.
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Childers ends where every honest theological journey should end — not with a system, but with a Person. This final chapter is the most personal in the book. Let these questions be personal too.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Childers describes the process of reconstructing her faith not as returning to naïve certainty, but as rebuilding on a firmer and more examined foundation. What is the difference between the faith she had before the think tank and the faith she has at the end of the book? What did she gain, and what did she have to grieve?
2.She describes her rebuilt faith as more costly but more real — that having tested it, she holds it with a different quality of conviction. Have you ever had your faith tested and come through it stronger? What did that process feel like, and what did it require of you?
3.Childers talks about the role that the community of the historic church played in her reconstruction — discovering that the questions she was wrestling with had been wrestled with before, and that faithful believers across centuries had found them answerable. How does the breadth and depth of the Christian tradition function as a resource in your own faith? Are you drawing on it, or does it feel inaccessible to you?
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