120 – This week I talk with Jason Elam about God's unfailing love for us.

Jason Elam, host of The Messy Spirituality Podcast, shared some very personal stories  about his faith journey.

• At seven years old he made his first profession of faith in a very legalistic church
• As a teen, he "died" during an operation, saw a Jesus type presence, and came back to life full of an indescribable sense of God's love
• His childhood dream of being a professional wrestler did not last as long as expected
• For 20 years, he was a pastor of a local church.
• But an encounter with God's overpowering love caused him to completely change his strict, legalistic, and conditional-love-based theology in a moment.
• He now hosts the Messy Spirituality Podcast and provides a safe space for people to ask hard questions about their faith as well as find and experience the love of God in their lives.
• He also helps people who have recently been incarcerated to rediscover their dignity and find employment.

Here are some of the questions I asked Jason:

What do you say to someone who has just been released from prison?
     "The most important thing I can do for these men and women coming out is just to say, 'I'm listening to you. I see you. I hear your voice. I hear your worth. And I believe your best days are yet to come.'"

What makes you tick Jason?
     "Somewhere along the way, I got captivated by Jesus. I was clinically dead and saw, someone I perceived to be Jesus. The light coming from this being is the purest, most accepting love I've ever encountered. And in the presence of that love, I knew that nothing that I ever had done that I thought was so disappointing to my parents and so disappointing to God, none of that mattered. There was room for me and everybody else in the presence of that kind of love."

You had a serious case of Covid. What did you learn from that experience?
    The most important thing was the my family knew I loved them.

How would you describe the deconstruction process you went through?
     The spiritual house I lived in burned down around me. But once I was stan

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