When You Feel Like You’re Losing Your Faith

When Faith Feels Fragile – Notes from the “You’ve Heard It Said” Doubt Round-Table

Opening Moments

Jason and Ally joke about recording on video (“I don’t know what to do with my hands”), ask viewers to “be nice,” and invite four friends to share openly about seasons “where it felt like your faith was starting to come apart.” No formal prayer—just candid, laughter-laced vulnerability that sets a safe tone.

Testimonies

Jason (Host & Pastor)

• Admitted four years ago that he was “probably struggling a little bit…experiencing doubt.”
• Doubt crept from small theological questions to praying with his kids and wondering mid-prayer if God was real.
• Counseling and honest conversations helped. Pivotal on-air moment: asked Pastor Craig, “How do you pray when you’re worried the person you’re praying to might not be listening?”—naming the struggle publicly became a turning point.
• Embraces ongoing honesty: “Keep looking at Jesus over and over.”

Jas

• Childhood abuse, bullying, and unhealthy “Christian” relationships made her ask, “If this God is real…why are the people that say they love Jesus hurting me?”
• Reading Romans convinced her God’s character is constant even when His people aren’t.
• Desert season in Arizona: alone, on her face “sobbing most nights,” giving God permission to prove Scripture true “for me.”
• Read Craig Groeschel’s The Christian Atheist; the line about “giving until it hurts” stirred a Holy-Spirit whisper: “I see you and I hear you, and I have never left you.”
• She stayed, resolving to “actually see people” the way Jesus sees her.

Jessie

• PK and MK, accepted Jesus at four after fearing heaven/hell.
• Creation-vs-evolution debates became “a core part of my identity,” making her faith “brittle.”
• College contradictions and Bible tensions kept her up at night.
• Quoted Job 13 (v.5–12) and realized she’d been “defending God with lies.”
• Learned that doubt can unite: “God was breaking out of the box I put Him in, and I did not know how to handle it.”

Laura

• Also trusted Christ at four; by 12 became a skeptic about miracles, suffering, and “a God I couldn’t see.”
• In worship services she felt nothing while others wept, wondering if lack of emotion meant lack of faith.
• At a youth retreat pictured her belief hanging by “a thread”; prayed, “God, you’re gonna have to do it.”
• Years later sees the thread as “unbreakable…tied around my wrist—God’s not letting go.”
• Psalm 73:21-26 now anchors her: “You hold my right hand…my flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart.”

Ally (Co-host)

• Uses logic as a “bodyguard” to avoid painful emotions; biggest questions: “God, are you really kind?” and “Can I trust You in terrible situations?”
• Shame often follows the doubts—“Am I a bad Christian?”
• Finds hope hearing others’ honesty and Jason’s reminder that Jesus calls the “poor in spirit” blessed (Matthew 5:3).

Holy-Spirit Highlights

• Doubt isn’t pursued; it “happens to you,” yet honesty about it becomes catalytic.
• God’s character is steady even when His followers fail.
• Isolation seasons (deserts, college dorms, youth retreats) often surface the deepest questions—and the clearest encounters.
• Imagery that stuck: an unbreakable thread, clay-pot defenses, giving until it hurts, God breaking out of our boxes.
• Community conversation turns shame into solidarity; “doubt can be more unifying than faith.”

Prayer Points & Next Steps

• Courage for anyone “mid-prayer” wondering if God hears.
• Healing for those hurt by Christians—may they separate God’s character from human failure.
• Grace to keep asking hard questions without self-condemnation.
• Commitment to “actually see people” and give generously, even when it hurts.
• Action step for listeners: ask someone, “Has there been a time your faith felt like it was coming apart? What do you need right now?”

Closing Blessing

“Have the conversation, ask the question, and then keep talking.”