My Ship Crashed

A story about Evangelical Christianity

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When I was an Evangelical Christian, there was an analogy I saw over and over again. It went a little something like this:

We are on a ship, and God is the captain. The things He tells us to do — the ways He guides our ship — may not make a lot of sense in the moment, but all we need to do is trust Him. Let Him continue to guide our ship. Through…