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It has been many years since the Duggar family became a reality show mega-hit. With nineteen children, the family’s everyday existence was a matter of fascination to a multitude of viewers. Adding to the mix was the Duggar family’s strong emphasis on their values and Christian faith. Some watched in admiration, others watched with horror and suspicion. Regardless of their motive, viewers turned the Duggar family into a household name and a monetary juggernaut. The children grew up in front of America until a scandal brought the show to an unseemly end.
Since the final airing, Jinger Duggar Vuolo’s spiritual life has been transformed for the better. Sadly, it was not the scandalous end that required the most healing, but the lifetime of bad theology that preceded it. Becoming Free Indeed is her story of finding a new way to be a Christian. As she moved away from the legalistic and fear mongering theology that held her in spiritual bondage her entire life, Vuolo found freedom in the person of Jesus. She developed a deep appreciation for the love of God and the compassion of Christ. She discovered a new way of reading the Scriptures. Foregoing the lens of fear and exclusion that permeated the hermeneutical process of her youth, Vuolo learned to study and read the Bible in a manner that brought hope, peace, and spiritual life.
Becoming Free Indeed is a testament to the grace of God, for only God can heal the damage inflicted by malformed Christianity. Regardless of how sincerely it is held, bad theology is destructive. It wrecks homes and churches, but what is most tragic is it wrecks individual people. Like the childhood Vuolo, there are multitudes of Christians who sit in churches every week who need to be saved not from their sins, but from their sincerely held doctrines about God and their fellow man. Becoming Free Indeed is a powerful proclamation that Jesus saves us in many ways, and sometimes he has to save Christians from their church.
-Darrel Holcombe, Owner
Sanctuary Christian Books and Gifts
Colonial Promenade, Alabaster
www.sanctuarychristianbooksandgifts.com
205-663-2370
