Austin's faith crisis went on for 10 years. After his search for more light and truth he wrote his own response to the CES Letter.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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"There's very logical reasons to be members of the church, and very logical reasons to believe in a higher power --something beyond that's bigger than us, that has a spiritual aspect. This isn't irrational, this is rational. And so once you can get back into realizing that belief is reasonable, then you can ask the questions that will truly give you a testimony through prayer and study and pondering those primary answers we hear all the time. I talk about the heart and the head. I believe that we can, and should, have knowledge in our heart, feeling emotion, yearning for God, along with rationality and reason. For me, the church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints is God's true and living church on the earth. I know that in my heart and I know it in my head. I have both of those. I think critics have had their way for a long time trying to convince people that there's no reason to have a rational testimony. But the 'Light and Truth Letter,' it's showing that it is reasonable -- and rational to believe, there's a lot of space for belief. My hope is that if you're struggling and you're a believing member, but having doubts -- If that's the case for you and you're telling yourself, there's no way the church could be true. That's not you talking. That's the critic parroting. You're parroting a critic, because there's lots of reasons to believe. I try to lay it all out in the 'Light and Truth Letter.' To show all of the positive evidences that there are for the church and that it's actually really rational and reasonable to believe. There is a preponderance of evidence that is more for us than against us. And for me -- that's enough to believe. And once I made that decision, then God could do something with me."

https://www.lightandtruthletter.org/

Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia

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0:00.0	This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.
0:07.0	Surf clothing is one of our favorite brands. They have been supporting us since the very beginning. We love them so much. I think one of the things that I like about surf so much is that my husband is
0:25.0	is that my husband is literally obsessed and I brought him in here to share his
0:29.7	experience with serve clothing. So Jesse tell us. I love serve clothing. This is the best shirt that I've ever owned for church and professional purposes. It's got four-way stretch which makes it really nice because not all the time I'm at my desk
0:44.0	oftentimes I'm moving and out and about so it's really nice to have a flexible shirt
0:47.9	that moves with me I know that it's got a mesh collar that I love I think the purpose of
0:52.3	that is really to prevent stains, but it's also super comfortable. It's way more comfortable around my neck. You know, if I'm at church or in business meetings with a tie or whether I don't have a tie, it's really comfortable.
1:03.0	It's got arm vents, which I love because I'm kind of a bigger fella.
1:06.4	It helps me so that I can be a bit breathable, and I love it.
1:08.9	And also, you can get 15% off a shirt from Serb using the code come back. Austin and Ticla, I'm so
1:16.1	excited to have you on. I've actually had probably like seven people reach
1:20.5	out to me telling me to have you on. And I am familiar with your story,
1:24.4	Jonah from Ward Radio, he initially like emailed and was like, hey you got to have
1:28.9	these guys on and so, but I heard about the light and truth, which we'll get into a little bit later on,
1:34.7	a response that you wrote to the CES letter. And as I was sharing before we started recording,
1:39.8	this is just so timely. A lot of things happening in my personal life of people that are stepping
1:46.5	away from the church and me kind of like, okay, I know this, I know what I should do, but what do I I do I don't know what to do like how do I guide how do I and your story is a perfect
1:58.1	illustration because you guys have been through this and Austin you went through the faith crisis
2:04.4	Ticla you were the the support through this and so God works all things to the good of
2:09.3	those who love him and now you have written an incredible response to the CES letter and so excited to hear.
2:18.0	So without further ado of me chit chatting, which I know I've been talking her off for like the last 15 minutes but we've loved it.
2:24.5	Let's go ahead and jump into your story. Let me say first that I love the comeback
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