“Chris, I want you to know that I’m proud of you.” Chris felt a tightness in his chest. “Proud? Of what? Me running off to drink away my problems? Breaking off an engagement to a perfect girl? Backing out of a church plant?” “Stop,” Gil said, interrupting. “I’m proud of the young man you are becoming. You’ve come face to face with some devastating sin and hypocrisy. You’re asking big questions and wrestling with important things, and there’s no shame in that. You want to own your own faith, not satisfied to go through the motions of a faith you’ve inherited. That’s admirable, if you ask me.”
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