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When faith communities avoid real struggle

Our church small group has become a place where people share surface-level prayer requests and encouragement, but no one talks about their real doubts or struggles anymore. We're all going through hard things but maintaining this veneer of faithful certainty that's making the whole community feel fake and unsustainable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community discovers that protecting faith from doubt may actually be destroying it.

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