What Happens when Your Family Rejects Your Faith

"If you walk out those doors, you're not coming back home." She walked out anyway, and that was only the beginning.On Covenant and Conflict, Trystan Tice tells David how a secular Jewish teenager from South Florida ended up asked to leave home for believing in Jesus, and what it cost her to keep going. She traces the years of persecution, the questions across the kitchen table, and the slow way her own family's hearts began to turn.What we cover in this episode:• Growing up culturally Reform Jewish, with faith as identity rather than belief• The church service where she wept and couldn't explain why• Praying "if Jesus is the truth, answer me" and watching her desires change• Being told to leave home, and the friends who took her in• Canceling her own baptism to honor her mother, then baptized in the Jordan RiverChapters00:00 From Jewish to Following Jesus01:55 Growing Up Jewish Without Knowing God04:20 The Church Service That Changed Everything09:41 How Reading the Bible Changed My Life13:54 Kicked Out for Following Jesus20:25 Baptized in the Jordan River26:39 How My Entire Family Found Jesus