As a conservative evangelical myself, this made me sad. In response, she began to push back on everything evangelical, renouncing her conservative upbringing and anything even closely tied to traditional, conservative, evangelicalism. People, even Christians, can be mean and they were really mean to her. Jen’s rejection by the evangelical world caused her to spiral farther and farther away from the truth of God’s Word. I’ve read that she received death threats and all sorts of hate mail. Many “Christians” were absolutely awful to her. She was ostracized and outcast by people that she thought were her friends and supporters. Well, many evangelicals around the world lost their ever-loving minds over this and Lifeway pulled her stuff off the shelves in a hurry. I value listening and learning from people who see things differently than I do, so while that did change me from fangirl to skeptic, I actually became more intrigued by what she had to say at that point. In 2017, Jen was being interviewed and she let the world know that she believes a homosexual marriage can be holy. But first, I’ll tell you what’s NOT the reason. If you’re not sure what happened to cause me to fall out of love with Jen Hatmaker, I’ll give you a quick rundown. In fact, I’m reading her posts and watching her videos much more critically these days. I’m still one of those followers, but I’m not fangirling anymore. She’s currently got 514K followers on Instagram and 769K followers on Facebook. I was not alone in my adoration of Jen Hatmaker. She’s got a super-trendy fashion style, a Harley-riding-pastor-husband and she had a brief stint on HGTV. Her very first book was called “A Modern Girl’s Guide to Bible Study”, which if you know me at all, you know that’s my jam. If you don’t know who she is, Jen is an author/speaker/influencer whose sense of humor and chatty writing style leaves her readers feeling like she’s their very best friend. To be totally clear, Jen Hatmaker and I don’t know each other at all. Jen saw the pained look on my face and made the time to snap a quick pic with me. I’d waited in a long line at a conference to chat with her and get a picture and then some “official” lady came and whisked her away when I was next in line. The night I met Jen Hatmaker, I was totally fangirling. Find more on that in Weak Women, Strong Women.** But I also believe so strongly that we have to beware of false teachers, that I think it’s time I pointed this one out. I never want to slander anyone or say something online that I wouldn’t say straight to someone’s face, so I never posted about my breakup with her. They didn’t realize that I’d broken up with her about three years ago. **Recently, two people I greatly respect mentioned that there was a time that I was a Jen Hatmaker fangirl.
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