Discussion Jumpstarter
Study leader reference - not a definitive answer
Question 2
Jason’s “truth glasses” illustration forces the question: if you discovered your beliefs “did not correspond with reality,” what would you actually change (church ties, reputation, relationships, ministry role), and what does that reveal about whether you’re a truth-seeker or “a defender of your own religious sect”?
Another way to ask: If you found out your beliefs were not true, what would you actually be willing to change (church, reputation, relationships, role in ministry)? What does your answer show about whether you love truth or just protect your group?
Discussion Jumpstarter
Direct Answer
The transcript suggests the real test is whether you will change when confronted with truth that contradicts your current beliefs, even if it costs you. Jason uses the illustration to expose whether we’re honestly seeking truth or simply protecting our religious identity.
- He asks: if you put on the “glasses” and found your beliefs “did not correspond with reality,” “what would you do about it? Would you change?”
- He says this “circles us all the way back”: “Are you a seeker of the truth, or are you simply a defender of your own religious sect?”
- Later he makes the decision concrete: if your beliefs differ from the first church, “you must make your own conscious decision… Are you going to abandon your old beliefs and take on a new one or not?”
- He connects refusing to change with a serious implication: it would suggest the apostles couldn’t successfully transmit Christ’s truths to their own disciples.
- He shares personally, “I… have been wrong… I have had to abandon so many wrong beliefs,” modeling costly change as normal for a truth-seeker.