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[quote=Anonymous]I’d like to share my story and I will not be back here for awhile as I’m giving up judgement and snark for lent…seriously. But my story is similar to Jen’s, i think that’s why I follow it. I followed my brother and his wife into Progressive Christianity, 2018-2019,I had looked up to them, they were “sold out for Jesus people” my whole life. I started to deconstruct my faith(2019), started building my ego, seeing Conservative Christianity as the enemy. I wound up getting divorced, drinking too much, went into a Godless relationship where we had lots of sex, drank, trips, etc. I portrayed the image of “ I found myself “ and “I’m loving life”  I lived for myself. What started with Progressive Christianity, I found I could live as I wanted, no repentance, I was the one harmed by conservative Christianity right?
I wound up alone, people used me to project their feelings about religion onto me, I was used sexually, I had no real friends or community anymore. But a couple people from my old church would come and help me, fix things in my new condo, talk with me, and I know they prayed for me. I started going to 12 step groups for addiction. And guess what? It led me back to the very thing I was running from. I don’t subscribe to the title evangelical anymore, because of the baggage with it. But I had to repent, to change, God is very real. I experienced things that I will never share because people will think I’m crazy. 
I guess that’s my story in a nutshell about my personal experience with Progressive Christianity. I know it might be different for others but I found it to be a false illusion that caused me to literally hate the real thing. [/quote]

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