
Come Untangled: Breaking Free from Religious Control (024)
From The Grace Cafe Podcast by Mike Adams, Susan Adams
March 10, 2025 · 32 min · Episode 24
About this episode
The episode discusses breaking free from religious control and the importance of embracing the freedom found in the gospel of grace.
Has religion tied you down instead of setting you free? In this episode, we share some of our own experiences in escaping the religious mindset so prevalent in many institutional churches. We talk about the dangers of rigid leadership, legalism, and religious tradition—how they obscure our view of the gospel of grace and the freedom we have in Jesus to be ourselves. Many of us lose our true identity in the institutional church, conforming to man-made rules and expectations instead of walking in the freedom that is already ours in Christ. Join us as we unravel these issues and explore what it truly means to step away from religious conformity and back into the liberating grace of the New Covenant gospel. If you've ever felt confined by church systems or struggled to break free, this conversation is for you. Here are some of our previous episodes of ours related to topics that came up in this episode. Patriarchy and Its Affects on Women and Men https://www.gracecafepodcast.com/2213342/episodes/13205508-patriarchy-and-its-affects-on-women-and-men-02 Did Paul Command Women to be Silent in Church? (Part 1)…
People in this episode
Hosts: Mike Adams, Susan Adams
Topics covered
- religious control
- freedom in Christ
- identity in church
- legalism
- gospel of grace
- religious conformity
Keywords
- religion
- freedom
- gospel
- legalism
- identity
- church
- grace
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: institutional churches, New Covenant gospel
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