Deconstruction (Psalm 73)

In part two of a two-week look at doubt, Pastor Dominic Jackson takes on one of the most loaded words in the church today: deconstruction. He names five common reasons people deconstruct, drawing on the painful story of his own friend group of future pastors and missionaries, most of whom have since walked away from the faith. Then Dominic opens Psalm 73, where Asaph nearly loses his footing watching the unfaithful prosper. Instead of cramming modern deconstruction into the psalm, Dominic lets the psalm become a roadmap for reconstruction: start with what you know, name the obstacle, dig beneath it, don't go alone, bring it to God, and tell your story. He closes with an image of the kind of church Gateway hopes to be: not a fence that keeps people in line, but a well that keeps drawing thirsty people back.