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Ep 23 The Courage to Rethink Faith
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What if wisdom—not certainty—is the key to a deeper, stronger faith? In this episode, Dr. Autumn unpacks why spiritual growth isn’t about rigid rules or black‑and‑white answers, but about holy curiosity, discernment, and courage.
Through her own story of wrestling with tough decisions and rethinking inherited beliefs, Autumn reframes “deconstruction” as something better: faith evolution. She shows how asking hard questions doesn’t push us away from God—it draws us closer.
With warmth and practical wisdom, Autumn reminds us that real growth, like strength training, requires resistance. The result? A faith that’s wiser, braver, and built to last.
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Introduction to Dr. Autumn and Align Living Podcast
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Hello there, I'm Dr. Autumn, leadership consultant, wellness coach, author, and I'm incredibly grateful to be your host of the Align Living podcast.
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I'm here to equip you with the tools, inspiration, and practical tips necessary to lead a life of wholeness and pursue greater shalom in your life and that of your families, teams, and communities.
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My mission is to empower you to lead from a place of holistic wellbeing. It's time to say, peace out to the fatigue, fog, and frustration of living in a place that lacks abundant wellbeing.
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Join me as we embark on a comprehensive exploration of spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, social, and economic well-being, all within the comforting embrace of one podcast.
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Hey, good people, Dr. Autumn here and welcome to the Align Living podcast.
The Role of Wisdom in Evolving Faith
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I am really excited to have you with me today because this is probably one of the most significant episodes that I've done so far.
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And we're going to talk about wisdom and its role in evolving faith and why it's so important to be asking God questions and to um not be stuck in the black and white of life and looking for rules to guide our way, but why um wisdom is such an essential component to navigating life and what that means for our faith and why our faith should always be evolving.
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um I'll touch on the this um very, ah I guess, hot topic um these days on my views on deconstruction and what that means. um I'll touch on my personal story and how I've navigated um just going to God and asking for wisdom to get me through a lot in my personal life because um as somebody who ah used to think in in very black and white terms, um because my desire, my heart's posture was always so genuine, like I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to, you know, my moral compass was strong. um I wanted to do the right thing. um It's why I have such a strong propensity towards like justice issues.
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um However, what I realized is in life, um and this took a lot of self work, but most things are not black and white. And ah the gray space is where we live. And even when you think about leadership development, like when I got my doctorate degree and it's like, you know, um leadership, there's not a rule book, right? um It's so essential to navigate life with wisdom, but we don't talk about like how you get it, what it looks like, it's rule and faith, why, you know, um Asking questions is so essential and having the courage to grow because you have to embrace change. You have to embrace questioning things that you thought you always knew and maybe what you thought you knew isn't what is right. And so with that being said, you know, um obviously a lot of
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ah Christians follow the the Bible to some extent. A lot of us read it in different ways. Some people look at it as like a rule book per se that kind of gives us information on how to live, but I don't see it that way at all.
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um I'm actually going to share a couple of quotes with you on um more the way that I see it. And I think it's more in line with, um you know, just what God calls us to do. Like in the beginning and the creation story, you know, God created humanity to be, you know,
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co-rulers with him and how can we do that if we're not exercising wisdom like you know if we're to steward the things that God's given us like that's a wisdom there's not like a rule book on how to do that so I'm really excited about today um first quote I wanted to share with you Rachel Held Evans she said the Bible wasn't meant to end conversations but to start them and why I'm starting with this is because I feel like um so many times there's a lot of um Just people feel so certain about their interpretation of certain things. But i think if we approached um faith with a posture of curiosity and saying, you know what, God wants us to go to him with everything. So let's ask him questions when it comes to whether we're on a valley and a valley or on at mountaintop, you know.
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And I think relationally, like ah within community, we would just get so much further if we saw it this way too. Again, the Bible wasn't meant to end conversations, but to start them. I love that. And then Andrew Perrin says, the Bible's an invitation, not an answer key. And I just think that's so powerful um to encourage you to hold on to that. Because um if you look at um the Bible as an invitation to learn more about God, um it's a lot of things that that happened. It's not it's not a um an answer key, like telling us exactly what to do. It's, you know, saying we're human and God created us out of love, but there's a lot of gray space in the middle. And how do we navigate that? We have to be in relationship with God.
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And so, With that being said, i kind of created my own quote that I kind of live by, and I'll just um touch on a lot throughout this episode. But to me, the Bible is not a rule book, it's a guide. And so it kind of is guiding us as we, you know, navigate life.
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And, you know, um there's there's so much wisdom and poetry and narratives and different things that we can learn from. we it's not telling us exactly what to do, right? It's a guide on how to live.
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um The biggest thing that Jesus talked about is how, what, what is the fruit of your life? What is your heart's posture? Like the biggest commandments to love God and love your neighbor. And so when we keep that as our lens and, and,
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It will change probably the way you look at a lot of things. So, um you know, all this to say this invites us into um relationship um and then reflection. And obviously I was followed by action. So um and it's really through the Holy Spirit that we're invited to interpret, imply it wisely.
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right. Always with context in mind, um context of the scripture then and the context of our lives now. And so i have never experienced more freedom in my faith when I realized that there is a lot of grace space in life. And when God invites us to lead with him, um there isn't
Society's Addiction to Certainty and Complexity
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necessarily a right way to do things in different situations. It just takes a lot of, um you know, exercising wisdom.
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But what that also means is how do you, how can you, you know, make wise choices that, you know, would be pleasing to God and, and love our neighbor um we need to be locked in with with God, right? Because our har heart posture has to be right. We have to be able to trust our intentions and our heart's posture. And um and and that also you know means we need to put in the work with emotional maturity and and mental well being and physical health, right? Like I've touched on cameras in this podcast, or actually my line living community with the course that I built up, but, um you know, ah Pete, gu cisque gazezero I think is how you pronounce it wrote that book, um emotional, healthy spirituality. And, you know, basically, this argument is you can't have healthy spirit, ah healthy, yeah um spiritual formation without
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without emotional maturity so a really good resource um but yeah i'm just going to talk about like why is this so difficult because you know when you hear it you might say well this is obvious yeah i'm wise i exercise wisdom but i'm going to challenge and push back on that because um I'm not saying you specifically, but in general, when you look at our culture, I think there's a lot of things like our propensity towards instant gratification and, um you know, why is our country so overweight and in financial debt?
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You know, like if we were in toxic relationships and all the things, like if we were excis exercising wisdom around all of these things, then, you know, our country as a whole would be in a different place. And, you know, um I would say that, you know,
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The root of this then would be like, if we want to exercise wisdom around these things, ah we need that intimacy with God. So um let me let me jump in a little bit deeper here.
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So I think part of it is because we live in this world addicted to certainty. All right. Like why? um If we really were to seek out wisdom and say like, okay, God, I'm going to go to you with these questions that I have and go to trusted people and mentors with questions and be willing to risk, you know, maybe like, you know, um questioning things that you want people to think you know everything about or something.
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um I think it's just this this world of uncertainty this world addicted to certainty, right? Yeah. Our culture often just elevates rules and black and white thinking and there's this certain way and it just leaves little space for complexity.
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But like I said, life is so full of these gray areas and spiritual maturity requires us to navigate them wisely, not to avoid them. All right. And one of podcasts that I listened to um they they speak frequently about um like anti-tribalism. I don't only like to use the word anti. They don't use the word anti, but like, you know, just encouraging people to think for themselves. And like if you were to try to, they they speak of people like when you try to put people in a box, maybe have one belief that lines up with these folks over here and another belief that lines up with these folks over here, people get really confused because they're used to
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they're used to People have one belief. um ah Let's say that they they have a ah pastor or a mentor or they follow someone politically or whatever, and they have a certain belief.
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A lot of people just fall in line with all of their beliefs. But we're encourage what I'm encouraging in that podcast, um what they're encouraging is to um think critically for yourself and to you know be willing to go to people and go to God with with questions.
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And we're complex beings. That's what I love about It's like, are you a complex being? do you you know There's not a cookie cutter way to look at my life and put me in a box because I have a lot of different viewpoints that I've wrestled with. And come to my conclusions, right? And so from the very, very beginning, you know, God created us in his image and invited us to co-lead with him, to have that dominion, to participate in creation, to steward, and that's leadership.
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um But leadership like life does not come with an answer key. And so we don't take enough time to ask God for wisdom, to seek wisdom, to consider what are choices even wise. And there's really no chapter and verse for every hard decision.
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Instead, we we need to gather perspectives, um which could be, you know, through prayer, through our own critical thinking experiences, but also going to other people that you trust that use wisdom. um We also need to pray and seek understanding. That's a huge one because, you know, human nature wants to be right all the time. We're always trying to defend ourselves. And um there's been a ah lot of conversation around like try not take so much offense, seek understanding. And then of course, asking for wisdom, not just assuming you have it, because that is not what wisdom is like. It's not just something that, um you know, we all have this huge muscle for like it needs to be intentional.
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And so wisdom is just so foundational to your well-being and your spiritual formation. And we just don't talk about it enough. And so I want to talk about how we grow in wisdom um Actually, in in my course, I'm going to go a lot deeper in like, what does this look like as it applies to each um element in Align Living, like your spiritual formation, also your mental health, your emotional health, physical health, social well-being and economic well-being. So um but just for some, um you know, kind of a jumpstart here, ah you need to ask questions and then make choices and then reflect on those and then discern through those.
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um I was just talking to one of my really good friends the other day um with in leadership. um You know, there's a lot of, you know, vision casting and um strategizing to an extent, but there's not a lot of like discerning.
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um you know, ah people would take in information and be like, okay, how does this apply? And just kind of like work it in and create their charts and there their are strategies. But how often are we discerning? So this is really, really important part of the process.
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You literally will not grow by just blindly following. It will not happen. It's like, you know, it to grow, you need to be challenged. And if you're just following, you're not going to be challenged.
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um You grow by being curious and by being engaged. All right. But here's the tension. We often resist asking deep questions when it comes to our faith. You know, I was thinking about this because I'm like,
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You're evolving when it comes to physical health. Totally normal, right? You learn something new and then you like make that change. Maybe it's something nutritionally. You're like, oh man, I need more of that or that's a good source of this. And um you you evolve in your faith. You you know go through experiences with relationships and you you know go to therapy and you read books. You're like, okay, I'm learning. I'm evolving in my relationships, just finding healthier relationships. When it comes to questioning our faith, like people just kind of freak out.
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um And I think we resist asking these deep questions. um because we just have fears. It could be we're afraid God will get mad at us, which I guarantee like he won't like God's like, I just love you so much. I want a relationship with you. Come to me with your questions. Let's do this together. He wants an intimate relationship with us, right?
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ah Maybe people are just too comfortable with the status quo. Like this is a big one. um As a disruptor myself, like I um was always so nervous about following through what I feel and God's calling me to do sometimes because people like the status quo and to be comfortable and I'm always pushing against that. And so um That could be another reason. Why else do we resist these questions when it comes to our faith? I mean, it could be your, um you know, it will just disrupt other things in your life, maybe your community.
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um You know, there's probably a lot of things that you can come up with and I'm not even thinking of. But I want to reframe this a little bit um and it might change your perspective. So I'm a mom of two boys who I love to death.
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And um I want more than anything for them to come to me with everything, their hardest questions. give them to me, let's talk about it. And I'm always creating safe spaces for this.
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And so why would we we believe that a loving relational God wouldn't want the same? All right. And so start there. and as promised in the beginning, I do want to touch on deconstruction a little bit because, um you know, this is such a hot topic that I feel like when you start talking about um asking questions around your faith and people start thinking about this term deconstruction and ah they freak out a little bit because,
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They think people are just blowing something up and then running away from God. But actually, the the word deconstruction isn't the problem. um I know there's a lot of noise around this word, but ah at its best, deconstruction is really just a process of asking questions and then examining beliefs and then seeking
The Process of Deconstruction
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deeper truth. OK, that's not something to fear. It's something to steward.
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Now, I think why people get so shook up around this word is because people ask questions and stop there. And that's the problem. Like you need to want the truth. So you're really like going to God and and praying and seeking out good community, you know, all the things right. You're examining and and seeking and and pursuing.
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It's very different. The danger lies in um not the question asking process, but when you stop there and then you're you're left raw and foundationless, growth without guidance just leaves us vulnerable. And so that's the difference there. That's why I prefer the word evolving um because deconstruction, you're kind of like,
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taking something apart but not rebuilding right so um with that being said uh for me evolving you're growing you're maturing you're moving forward and so i just really love that um word for this context here and so yeah we should always be evolving um the key is just to not do it recklessly right um evolving without wisdom is reckless right you're just drifting around And the more dangerous part is you're letting other things influence you, which is is where I think why it's gotten to be a little bit nerve wracking for some people, because if you're letting culture or trends or emotions guide you instead of the spirit, like that's the problem. OK. And so I'm calling this out because that's what we need to be aware of. Like it's like we can't get to where we want to be without doing the things. But people do the things.
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um without the foundation or without the intention to like actually want to to move forward and do it in so in locked in with God. You know what I mean? So um true evolving faith is marked by several things. It's not just the asking the questions, but again, seeking truth.
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whether it's trying to understand what scripture has to to tell us, again, as a guide, not a rule book, um what community, good, positive community, people from different perspectives that you trust, that you know, love you, that love God, um listening to the Holy Spirit, right? Like I think a lot of people might ask the question, go to community, listen to this podcast, do this, do that. But are you listening to the Holy Spirit, right? Like that was the most amazing thing about what Jesus did for us, like got out of his intense love that just wanted to be able to be closer to us, you know, gave us Jesus. And then after that, right, greater things will you see because, you know, Jesus went to the Father and then we were given the Holy Spirit, like having God in you.
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um And when you are seeking relationship with God, you get to experience you're in tune with that Holy Spirit and there's nothing more amazing. And then being willing to be vulnerable and uncomfortable, like that's another one, right? Like, whew, you start this journey, you're like, you don't see the end, you just keep going in faith. And so,
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Um, I just wanted to touch on a couple of things though, because, you know, it's like, uh, when I do health coaching and we're looking at nutrition. Okay. So someone's struggling to make certain choices. Like you have to get to the root of it. Like, you know, why is it hard to eat healthy? Like what kind of barriers is, do you know emotional eating, boredom, boredom eating, not knowing the right things to do. Like there's all these things.
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things you need to acknowledge and so the same thing with this like why are people fearing spiritual growth by asking questions and there's just i think reasons and um you know i touched on this earlier but it could be fear of losing an identity could be a fear of social rejection. It could be a fear of being wrong. It could be a fear of uncertainty or instability.
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It could be a fear of change. um And so we don't wanna act on fear, right? We wanna act on faith. So it's self-awareness is part of every process of this Align Living journey. I don't care if talking about fitness. I don't care if we're talking about um emotional health, social well-being, like fear is something that we need to um acknowledge and we only could do that if we're self-aware. So um the truth is, again, you cannot grow if you're not willing to be challenged. Your faith can't deepen if it stays in a bubble of certainty, okay?
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And so um I was a personal trainer for quite a while and so I love just, you know, nutrition and ah fitness analogies, sports analogies, I just love it all. um But with strength training, your um muscles only grow when they're challenged.
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um And so what happens is the tiny, tiny muscle fibers break a little bit. And then, especially when you get the right nutrition and you, you know, for proper recovery, and then as your muscles like heal, essentially, they're growing.
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um growing in also efficiency. So a lot of increase in strength is not actually an increase in size, um especially for women. It's an increase in um efficiency of that muscle just through the the resistance, through the pressure and then the recovery. And so it's the same thing with our faith. It grows through resistance and pressure and recovery. And that's why in my personal story, I could tell you the way that I elevated spiritually in the last couple of years, just because of things that I had to navigate,
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is unreal. Like to be able to say that I was in a pit, I was struggling, just going through a really hard time, recovering from a lot of hurt and a lot of pain. And then being in that place um of just a lot of stress, but feeling like, okay, despite that, like I was elevating spiritually.
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And then what that did is it just allowed me to like grow through all that because I was lockstep with God. And so um think of it as asking these questions as part of the spiritual workout. But again, it doesn't end there. You have to exercise wisdom through the process.
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And we get wisdom from God. So you can't make those choices well aside from God. And that's what I'm you know, trying to encourage you all here because God wants we all have equal access, you know, that's the cool part.
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So what does wisdom require? Because it's not automatic. Like, I think, again, when I was first introducing this episode, I was hoping i my man, I hope people just don't to tune out because people are like, oh, yeah, like I got knowledge, I got wisdom.
Pursuing Wisdom and Spiritual Formation
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Here's the thing, though, like if you look at the evidence, I don't know how many of us could say like we're exercising wisdom with all of our choices. And so it requires um being intentional, pursuing it.
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So James 1 5 in the Bible says, if any of you lacks wisdom, just let him ask God and it'll be given to him. Right. Like it's a relational God, a generous God, like ask God for wisdom. That's where you find it.
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um And you can't just follow influencers. You can't just collect opinions. You can't just mimic mentors. you know ah all of all of that's human right and human make mistakes we're not perfect so even you know to be honest even the people that i admire most like and and this is sometimes why i hesitate sharing resources that i love because i'm like i might not agree with everything they say but there's some really good stuff here and think we need to get to that point where like you know you know where you could share something be like this is really good i might not agree with everything but you know see where we do have things in common where we're aligned
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But even with mentors, it's like I don't agree with them on everything, but I i certainly listen and I learn. um And then always eventually um bring it to God. And so um i do want to tell you some of the most significant significant questions I asked, though, in my hardest times where like, God, I really, really, really need wisdom or I was leading big things or um making some big life decisions. ah I was asking myself, is this belief still bearing good fruit?
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Like, how do you know if wisdom's at work? Is this belief still bearing good fruit? fruit Another question to ask is, is this path leading to love and truth and integrity?
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Again, like where where are you going? Like, what is this leading to? And then is this conviction grounded in God or in fear? Again, that's a good question to ask. There's probably a lot of questions that you can ask, but there's a few of them to start with. And so, um you know, i literally could have taken this conversation about wisdom and applied it to any areas of aligned living, but I wanted to start with spiritual formation because that's the foundation, right? Like,
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Why is a lesson on wisdom a lesson in spiritual formation? This is why, because a healthy evolving faith, um like I can't emphasize how important it is to really take the time to make sure you're um exercising wisdom. So, um and again, it welcomes questions instead of fearing them. So start there if you find yourself like in a moment, because hearing this, you might not really get it. It might hit you when you go through something, you're like, okay, how am I feeling about the questions I'm asking here?
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um Seeking wisdom instead of outsourcing it. All right. Engaging community without losing individuality, then honoring God through this honest exploration and knowing like it's not like a negative thing.
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we're just literally being spiritually formed always in one direction or the other. And the question is like, what are we being formed by? Are we being formed by tradition, by culture, by fear, or by the spirit of God? And that's wisdom. And I say this about food when I'm doing nutrition coaching, it's like nothing we take in as neutral, right? It's either helping us be healthier or it's making us unhealthy.
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And so it either is adding nutrition to our bodies or it's adding some sort of toxins, something that our bodies don't want. And so to think about most things that we do in light of this, you know, I think is pretty significant. So um my final challenge to you is to ask yourself if you're evolving in your faith or if you're just avoiding this process altogether.
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Are you asking better questions or settling for inherited answers, like just things that you people have told you parents or or somebody that you just you know, follow, so on and so forth. um Are you seeking wisdom or just seeking comfort?
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Faith that never questions never deepens, similar to what I was saying about like, we need resistance to get stronger, right? And faith that only questions without wisdom becomes untethered, like what's your foundation?
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But faith that questions with the spirit's wisdom becomes resilient and authentic and mature. And that's what we want. Right. So I'm just going to leave you with this. um Ask the questions and let God meet you there and then let your faith evolve. Like, don't be afraid of that process.
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And so um just a little bit more about my personal story before I wrap up. um i will tell you that. um really, really grasping this was one of the most freeing things to me when it came to my faith. um Very, very personal because again, as I mentioned, Enneagram, I'm an Enneagram one. So I lean towards this black and white thinking and I crave clarity and structure and wanting to do the right thing. And for a long time, I just held so tight to certain rules I'd been taught, rules that I thought honored God.
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um But one of those rules actually kept me in in unhealthy um relationship that was was not good for me. It was causing a lot of stress, a lot of pain, And, um, and so, I had to really, really, um, go deep with God and ask the question, like, what were my thoughts on divorce? For example, if, if I, you know, I was raised that it wasn't okay to get a divorce under any situation. And then, or you know, as I started evolving and breaking things down, I'm like, man, like Jesus always, always was protecting the oppressed. It was always about love and loving relationships.
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Um, and I just thought about God, God's our father and we're his children. and Would I be okay with watching my kids in that situation? You know what I mean? And so it just really started changing the way I was thinking, right?
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And so just going through this painful season, I just was really reevaluating everything. And it just became so amazing because as I started digging in deeper and deeper into other questions, I'm like, oh my gosh, like I'm just meeting God even more closely in new ways.
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And so that chapter of my life was filled with a lot of pressure and stress and heartache. um And I just, it was broken and exhausted and raw, but in the middle of that low polite place, I'm telling you,
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I encountered God more deeply than ever before. um And it was through this process of asking hard questions and not out of rebellion because I knew God, I experienced him so deeply in my spirit since I was a girl.
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um But it was more out of a place for desperation and longing for the truth and I didn't find shame or silence. I literally found a new um side of Jesus, right, um that cares so deeply about my heart and my health and my healing. And I knew this.
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I told other people this all the time, but it's different when you go through something and you experience him in a different way. And it wasn't easy. There was ups and downs, but through that process, um ah my hope began to rise in such incredible ways and um you know what i thought would break my faith actually stretched it and strengthened it and i discovered that asking new questions didn't distance distance me for god but it drew me closer and leaning into wisdom especially in those gray areas brought so much clarity and not confusion and so back to that analogy of muscle growth like faith grows under tension it develops under pressure when we lean in when we
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seek to draw closer to God, um truly, and then to trust God in the middle of it. And so if you're walking through a valley, just know that God is there. Whatever questions you carry, God is not afraid of them.
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And whatever, if any old beliefs are being challenged, like God's wisdom can guide you through because the goal isn't to tear everything down.
Growth Through Love, Truth, and Grace
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It's to grow up in love and truth and grace. And that takes wisdom. And that's why this matters.
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Honestly, that's why I'm so passionate about it and about helping others evolve in their faith with courage and spiritual maturity. And so, you know, as you go, ask the hard questions and seek God's wisdom and trust the journey, no matter how challenging and that belief that is forming something beautiful in you. And so um just as always, I'm going to close with Autumn's ah tip of the day. Because what do I say? Practice makes progress, not um perfection. And so super simple um this episode. Just pause to pray for wisdom and then discern.
00:28:55
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all right. That's it. Because we need to start there. Because we want wisdom in our lives. We have to ask for it. And so that's it. that's That's the starting point. Because what what do I say about Align Living? I wanted a practical way for people to move from where they are to where they want to be. That's why really break it down with the coaching and all the things I offer in the Align Living community, because I want people to have really practical steps on eating better, on healthier relationships, mental health, um fitness, all of it, right?
00:29:22
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So this is including our spiritual formation. And I just want to ask you that if you are craving a space where you can grow in that kind of into that kind of alignment where wisdom meets every area of your real life, physical, mental, emotional, social, etc.
Invitation to Join Align Living Community
00:29:35
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I just want to invite you to join my Align Living community. I made it as affordable as possible because I want anyone and everyone to be able to participate. um And it's really more than just a group. My dream, my desire was to have this transformational space where we unpacked the practical of how to live well in every dimension of life.
00:29:54
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All right. And so I'm just really passionate about that. i invite you to join me. um And in in this space, we don't just talk about alignment. We practice it. So you the the course is self-paced and it's kind I'm constantly adding new content.
00:30:07
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um But the group coaching allows you to ask specific questions that you want me to answer and take you through. um live and recorded. And then of course there's challenges because I think that we all benefit from challenges when we know we're doing something with other people.
00:30:21
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um So a lot of different really practical things there. And so anyways, I do invite you to check it out, autumnswain.com. And um thank you for listening. And I hope until i um you join me next time, stay aligned.
00:30:37
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Thank you for tuning in to the Aligned Living Podcast. I'm Dr. Autumn, your guide on this journey to shalom or wholeness. Ready to embark on this journey of self-discovery and transformation?
00:30:52
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Head over to autumnswain.com to learn more and to dive deeper into the world of Aligned Living. Until next time, stay aligned.