248: Jay Bakker and Discovering Unbelievable Grace

Jay Bakker is an author and speaker at Revolution Church. If his name looks familiar, it’s because he is the son of famed televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Today, Jay shares about growing up as his parents rose to fame and fell, how he ignored God for a season, and discovering the radical nature of grace. He describes getting sober and why he things of theology as art. Jay’s story reminds us that God accepts us as we are because he loves us.

Listen to Jay’s story now!

Stories Jay shared:

Growing up as a televangelist kid
How his parent’s scandal affected him
Realizing that his parents really believed what they preached
Going to the alter a thousand times as a child
Ignoring God in order to live
Beginning to understand grace through Bible study
Joining a 12 step program to get sober
Starting Revolution in Atlanta
Getting dialectic behavior therapy
Struggling through doubt
Accepting others to accept himself
Thinking of theology as art
Where he thinks the church is headed

Great quotes from Jay:

So much of what I’d been taught, and the culture I grew up in was only part of the story.

Grace is anarchy. You don’t get an asterisk.

I’m not going to let someone’s political views make me hate them.

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