Defaults: Examining Our Pictures of God

C.S. Lewis once said that our ideas about God are not "divine ideas." As much as we'd like to believe that our views of God are always biblical, we all bring assumptions and default beliefs to the table through our lived experience. Our culture, relationships, childhood hurts, and even our churches can all wrongly influence and shape our beliefs about who God is – often without us even realizing it. Rather than following the one, true God, we end up worshiping a God shaped by our own experiences. In this series, we'll examine some common default views of God many of us carry – often unconsciously – and ask whether they tell the whole story. We'll invite God to shatter some of these false images to make way for a clearer view. And as we do, we'll pray to be reshaped into the kinds of people who don't project our fears onto God but rather reflect God's wisdom and ways into the world. This week, we considered how our stated beliefs about God can differ from the default beliefs that drive our actions and relationship with God. If you would like to practice a reflection on our pictures of God here is one we did in Practice Tables If The Practice Church is your home community, please join the Core Team . If The Practice Church has been meaningful to your journey, would you consider a tax-deductible gift? You can give at

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Defaults: Examining Our Pictures of God is an episode from The Practice Podcast by Jason Feffer.

This episode is 51:30 long.

This episode was published on Mar 1, 2026.

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