Is God Good All The Time?
Brian Fisher explores one of the deepest and most uncomfortable questions in spiritual formation: What if, somewhere beneath our theology, we’re not actually convinced God is good?
Drawing from Scripture, personal experience, psychology, and the Soil & Roots framework of deep discipleship, this episode examines the hidden “ideas” that quietly govern our inner lives. While many Christians intellectually affirm God’s love and goodness, our anxiety, control, resentment, and guardedness often reveal a very different lived reality beneath the surface.
Brian contrasts beliefs with deeper heart-level ideas formed through relationships, suffering, wounds, and experience. He explores why modern Christianity often produces informed people without necessarily producing transformed people, and why true discipleship must involve the healing of the unconscious self—not just the transfer of information.
Along the way, he reflects on suffering, authenticity, vulnerability, the limits of scholastic Christianity, and the relational safety Jesus invites us into. From the story of a former missionary who lost faith after witnessing profound suffering, to reflections on anxiety, control, and our difficulty receiving love, this episode offers a compassionate and deeply honest look at the hidden places of the human heart.
Ultimately, “Too Good to Be True” is an invitation into radical honesty before God. Not performance. Not pretending. But the kind of authenticity that allows healing and deep transformation to finally begin.
If you’ve ever struggled to trust God in the middle of pain, disappointment, fear, or unanswered questions, this episode is for you.
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