Autorentext

New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of Life.Church, an innovative, multisite church that created the free YouVersion family of Bible apps. He has written twenty books, including The Benefit of Doubt: How Confronting Your Deepest Questions Can Lead to a Richer Faith (2025). Known as a pastor with a heart for spiritual leadership, he hosts the top-ranking Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast and speaks frequently at leadership events and conferences worldwide. Craig and his wife, Amy, live in Oklahoma and have six married children and seven grandchildren. Connect with Craig at www.craiggroeschel.com.

Klappentext

In The Benefit of Doubt, bestselling author and pastor Craig Groeschel shows us that doubt is not the enemy of faith but often an invitation to deeper faith. With his trademark humor, warmth, and lay-it-all-on-the-table style, Groeschel shows how asking questions, seeking answers, and wrestling with doubt can lead to a deeper relationship with God.

Zusammenfassung

Struggling with Doubt Doesn't Make You a Bad Christian--It Might Be What Saves Your Faith.

If you're secretly wrestling with questions about God, faith, or the Bible, you're not alone--and you're not broken.

In The Benefit of Doubt, bestselling pastor Craig Groeschel shows how your hardest spiritual questions can actually deepen your faith, not destroy it. Instead of hiding from doubt, Groeschel invites you to bring it into the light--and watch what God can do with it.

Through candid stories, biblical insight, and real-life struggles, Groeschel reframes doubt as a path, not a problem. With humor, humility, and hope, he walks alongside you to explore the most common (and often unspoken) spiritual questions--not with judgment, but with wisdom and empathy.

What You'll Learn:

• Why doubt doesn't mean your faith is weak--it means you're asking the right questions
• What to do when God feels silent, distant, or absent
• How to reconcile science and Scripture without giving up either
• Why unanswered prayers don't mean unanswered purpose
• How to talk about spiritual questions in communities that value certainty
• Why Jesus is still worth following, even when Christians fall short

How Readers Are Using This Book:

"This helped me reopen conversations with my teen about faith and doubt--without shame."

"We used this in our small group, and it unlocked a whole new level of honesty."

Readers are

• Using the book's reflection prompts for journaling or discussion
• Bringing it into small-group studies, church leadership circles, and counseling contexts
• Rebuilding faith after spiritual deconstruction or burnout
• Sharing it with teens, new believers, or friends quietly questioning their faith

Who This Book Is For:

• Christians silently struggling with doubt or spiritual disconnection
• Small-group leaders navigating honest faith conversations
• Believers going through deconstruction but still longing for God
• Pastors, parents, and mentors helping others process faith questions with compassion

Doubt isn't a dead end. It's an invitation to something deeper.

The Benefit of Doubt will help you rediscover a faith that not only can withstand your hardest questions but sees those questions as a way to draw closer to God.