Ep 138: Don’t Get the Wrong Idea

What do you really believe about God? In Episode 138, Brian continues Season 7, Deep Calls to Deep, by returning to one of the central ideas of Soil & Roots: our lives are not shaped primarily by what we say we believe, but by the ideas our hearts actually assume. Ideas are the unconscious assumptions, conclusions, and experienced realities in which our hearts are rooted. They sit beneath our belief systems and quietly shape how we relate to God, ourselves, others, and the world. We may intellectually believe that God is good, loving, safe, and trustworthy — while our hearts live as if He is distant, disappointed, unsafe, or unreliable. This matters because Season 7 is exploring the journey into depth. If the first step toward the Good Life is receiving God’s love with vulnerability, then our true ideas about God become essential. How can we surrender to love if our hearts do not trust the One offering it?