Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

I grew up in a coc family and always struggled. I left the coc 17 years ago but still struggle with my faith.

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Hi! I left almost 40years ago, but I am still figuring out what I believe and what I want.

CC777 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:50 am I grew up in a coc family and always struggled. I left the coc 17 years ago but still struggle with my faith.

From my experience, the legacy of the CofC is exactly that, that is, as long as you stay in it you will struggle with your faith until you die, because you can never at any point in your life be assured of salvation, i.e., a "condemning" faith. But even then, if you choose to remain in the faith and look to go down another path, I would just say that what helped me was when I discovered grace, something discussed in the CofC only in passing, IMO. But on the bottom line ISTM that faith is never a cake walk, has its ups and downs, like any relationship (look at the Psalms of David), therefore never being completely "struggle free", because it stems from a relationship in the first instance, not from compliance to a 5- or 6-step "plan of salvation".