Broken Cisterns-Episode 2-Chapter 1-Broken Religion

Welcome to the Broken Cisterns Podcast on Senetru Radio — a chapter-by-chapter journey through Broken Cisterns: From New Age to New Covenant, the newest book from Senetru, written by Susannah LaPoint. Episode 2 | Chapter 1 — Broken Religion Susannah was born going to church. From the fluorescent-lit basement of a small-town Bible church to a Baptist congregation in Oregon, to a Christian school that required performance and delivered nothing real — she spent her entire childhood inside a system that handed her a God she could not find and then told her the problem was her. The visceral wrongness she felt from her earliest memories — the "ick" that lived in her chest every Sunday — was not a bad attitude. It was a built-in lie detector going off constantly, telling her the thing in the room was not what it claimed to be. Kenny also weighs in with his own experience inside the institution — including what happened when he got to Bible college and made the mistake the system cannot tolerate: he started asking honest questions about the doctrine and the foundation underneath it. The institution's response was swift and revealing. He was told he was not allowed to return. When the ground cannot bear the weight of scrutiny, the only move available is to remove the one doing the scrutinizing. Together they unpack what the institutional church actually is: not a place of worship, but a system with the form of godliness and none of the power. A door-shaped object that leads nowhere near Yahweh. A mechanism designed to keep sincere people reaching and never arriving — and to silence the ones who notice. "Having a form of godliness but denying its power." — 2 Timothy 3:5 "The priests did not say, 'Where is the Lord?' And those who handle the law did not know Me." — Jeremiah 2:8 The institution did not introduce you to Yahweh. It has been standing between you and Him. And when you left — He was standing on the other side. He has been there the whole time. 📘 Broken Cisterns: From New Age to New Covenant, Return to Me: Restoring the Hearts of the Children to the Father, A Brood of Vipers: The History of Corruption in the Institutional Church, Carry the Light: The End of Self-Rule, The False Door, and Unmasking the Beast are available at www.senetru.com