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Ep 139: Don’t Get the Wrong Idea (GH)

What if your hidden ideas about God shape your life more than your stated beliefs? In this Greenhouse episode, Brian, Handsome Kyle, and Doc continue the conversation from Episode 138 on ideas, beliefs, and the unconscious forces that shape our discipleship. Season 7, Deep Calls to Deep, is exploring how we become people of depth โ€” people who naturally and unconsciously think, act, relate, and love more like Jesus. The conversation begins with Psalm 42 and the seasonโ€™s theme: โ€œDeep calls to deep.โ€ Doc unpacks the water imagery of the psalm, reminding us that the journey into depth is not always gentle or peaceful. Sometimes Godโ€™s invitation into the Good Life comes through waves, breakers, chaos, suffering, and the painful process of being unmade and remade. Brian, Handsome Kyle, and Doc then return to the Soil & Roots language of ideas: the assumptions, conclusions, and experienced realities in which our hearts are rooted. These hidden ideas often operate beneath our stated beliefs. We may say we trust God, believe in His goodness, and affirm His love, while our actual lives reveal a different operating system.

BY Brian Fisher

April 13, 2026

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Our Hidden Ideas About God

Dr. Tim comes loaded with insightful questions about the vital role ideas play in our spiritual formation and our quest to become deep disciples.

Continuing their discussion from Episode 138, the guys tackle the importance of “the Wall,” and how doubt, discouragement, and some deconstruction are a normal and good stage in our discipleship.

We’ve often stressed the importance of “discipling the unconscious self,” and Doc draws on research from philosophy and economics to show that we do, in fact, operate from forces we’re rarely conscious of. We call them ideas, but they’re also known as paradigms or unconscious frameworks.

Since any genuine discipleship must start with the Gospel of the Kingdom, they spend some time unpacking various contrary ideas in modern Christianity that actually contradict the Kingdom.

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