Something shifts in the middle of life that you were not warned about. The fervor you once had—the fire, the sense that God was close, and the faith was vivid—has gone flat. And the question underneath your silence, the one you are ashamed to admit, is not "What happened to my faith?" It is "What is …
Podcast
502: Your Faith Has Become a Job, and Jesus Never Hired You. Tim Timmons on Performance Christianity, Deconstructing Flimsy Christian Platitudes, the Difference Between Surrender and Contentment, and Wrestling with God Well.
Somewhere between the prayer requests and the small group answers and the service rotation, you stopped following Jesus and started working for him. You know what this feels like: the quiet exhaustion under the faithfulness, the sense that God has become an employer and you have become an employee …