Letters from Home is a faith-building podcast sharing everyday stories of faith from people of all walks of life. Life is hard, and on most days, our faith needs a boost. Letters From Home Podcast will bring a new faith story, every other week, from people who love Jesus, of all ages & demographics. You will hear in these stories, their dreams, their failures, their pain, their struggles, their life changing encounters, and their extraordinary moments. You’ll leave each episode encouraged and inspired to love God and the people around you more deeply.
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Letters from Home is a faith-building podcast sharing everyday stories of faith from people of all walks of life. Life is hard, and on most days, our faith needs a boost. Letters From Home Podcast will bring a new faith story, every other week, from people who love Jesus, of all ages & demographics. You will hear in these stories, their dreams, their failures, their pain, their struggles, their life changing encounters, and their extraordinary moments. You’ll leave each episode encouraged and inspired to love God and the people around you more deeply.
Have you ever had the feeling that your life, what people see, and the reality of your heart are so far apart it is like you are wearing a mask.
Chris Archuleta was faking his spirituality as a pastor, so much so, that his family didn’t even know. This went on for years, until through a series of painful events, God helped him take that mask off. He shares with us that painful, but healing process, and how His loving God captured his heart, and restored him back to ministry.
Lk 9:23- “And he said to all, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me’.” ------------------------------------------ Topics Shared:
LEARNING TO LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE He thought his ethnicity was ‘christian’ Intense Biblical upbringing Traumatic event caused deep hostility as a teen Mean kid, who picked on others, fights Great academics Living a double life, rule following at home trouble at school Pretending to be perfect
HIS MASK COMES OFF Changed at a teen retreat Baseball player Dad started a church, his brother was the youth pastor Maybe I am next Reading for his own, and starting speaking publicly Out of his comfort zone, classic introvert Nervous to speak, hiding his shyness (chewed gum) Compromising his faith in a relationship Let go as a pastor Married Fired from a bunch of jobs Became a phony and a fake as a pastor and worship leader His wife didn’t even know The spirit had left him and he didn’t even know it Combining church ministry with his family was a train wreck Family relationships were strained
VULNERABILITY & TRANSFORMATION Parenting changed him, his daughter is his world and his son is his heart. Suicidal low and a call that changed him. The death of a godly man and the birth of another. Vulnerability with a pastor that reached out. The mask comes off Restored as a pastor
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Chris Quotes: “My marriage, all of the faking and the phoniness, I couldn’t do it and I snapped. We were now arguing all of the time. I couldn’t carry the weight I was carrying. I couldn’t do the things that I was doing. I couldn’t fake it any more, and I felt that I was letting everyone down.”
“My prayers in public, you couldn’t tell that I was not praying at all. When I was praying at churches or leadership meetings, you just couldn’t tell because I had gotten so good at faking it. And I had gotten really good at burying the feeling of being a phony. And I was getting away with it. And that is the part that scared me the most.”
“That was probably my biggest mistake in ministry, that I thought I was the guy shouldering everything went into His strengths.God. . I never went into His grace and love to power me through it. II never said. ’God this is your ministry. It was mine. I personalized it so much, that I never gave it to God. So when it started crumbling, it was me. I fell apart. It was my mistake. And then I got angry at God. I became your classic prodigal son older brother. But what about me, and I became very angry at God.”
“You have to get the mask off, and the easiest way is accountability. God didn’t design us to be alone. If you look at animals in nature, the one the lion gets is the animal that is by itself. The enemy comes after us when we are alone.”
“The biggest struggle in the church today is the lack of authenticity. If hypocrisy at its root is a lie, authenticity is the truth. If we were just more truthful at church. If we could just remove the facades of ‘God is good all the time which isn’t a lie, but yeah ‘life sucks, life hurts, I am struggling with this, to find someone to be...
Letters From Home
Letters from Home is a faith-building podcast sharing everyday stories of faith from people of all walks of life. Life is hard, and on most days, our faith needs a boost. Letters From Home Podcast will bring a new faith story, every other week, from people who love Jesus, of all ages & demographics. You will hear in these stories, their dreams, their failures, their pain, their struggles, their life changing encounters, and their extraordinary moments. You’ll leave each episode encouraged and inspired to love God and the people around you more deeply.
