More Lost Than Found: Finding a Way Back to Faith

“I vaguely remember finding Jesus when I was a child, but I vividly recall losing him.”

Jared Herd grew up the son of a preacher, baptized in religion before he was ever baptized in church. As a child, his parents went through a painful and public divorce, and Jesus became a distant memory, like an artifact of childhood that gets put away and forgotten.

Eventually Jared broke a promise he made to himself and walked back into church. He realized the problem wasn’t God—it was how he had be...