Bobby Conway > Quotes

“Gone are the days (if they ever existed) of the American Christian utopia. This is not your father’s “Christian America.” And on top of all this, our nation’s youth are leaving the church at record rates, and feeding this departure is a plethora of unchecked doubts.”
― Bobby Conway, Doubting Toward Faith: The Journey to Confident Christianity

“Doubt often leaves its victims in a state of desperation. There is an inner anguish associated with doubt. Like a lingering headache, it pounds with every beat of our heart, enslaving us with inner turmoil. Doubt can leave us emotionally wasted. Lonely. Confused. Depressed. Feeling hopeless. Wanting to give up. It can even lead once sold-out believers to contemplate suicide as they abandon all hope and embrace nihilism.17 Doubt’s lingering effects drain and deplete our intimacy with Jesus, making us feel fake around more confident believers. At times we even feel hypocritical as we doubt in the dark, away from possible ridicule or condemnation. Doubt can suffocate us. That’s why the church must respond. And fast.”
― Bobby Conway, Doubting Toward Faith: The Journey to Confident Christianity

“God is not an object to be analyzed, but a Savior to be adored.”
― Bobby Conway, Doubting Toward Faith: The Journey to Confident Christianity

“Consider this. If we could compile an exhaustive case for Christianity that proved it with 100 percent certainty, guess what that would imply? There’d be no room for faith. And with no room for faith, there’s no room to please God by faith. Thankfully, God provides us reasonable evidence to believe and then asks us to trust Him with our unanswered questions.”
― Bobby Conway, Doubting Toward Faith: The Journey to Confident Christianity

“As we search and explore, we must be careful not to read the Bible as if it’s guilty until proven innocent. This is one sure way to turn our faith into a cold, pure science. And our relationship with God will die as the romance fades. Martin Luther, the well-known reformer, referred to this as the difference between a magisterial use of reason and a ministerial use of reason. Someone who practices the former places himself above the Scriptures and judges whether it is true or false. That person becomes the final arbiter of truth and error. However, the person who practices the latter submits himself under the Scriptures, trusting the Word of God as the final arbiter of truth. This is what Augustine referred to as “faith seeking understanding.”
― Bobby Conway, Doubting Toward Faith: The Journey to Confident Christianity

“Perceived hate typically produces hate in return. And as a result, we’re often viewed as the playground bully, the villain of the story. Tragic.”
― Bobby Conway, The Fifth Gospel: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John…You

“But no matter what happens to us, we are not hostages to our emotions or prisoners to our circumstances. We are overcomers.”
― Bobby Conway, The Fifth Gospel: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John…You

“On one end are the morality police—those Gospel grenade-launching believers who see it as their mission to expose and condemn every ill of culture, further alienating non-Christians from anything remotely connected to Jesus.”
― Bobby Conway, The Fifth Gospel: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John…You