443. When Church Doesn’t Feel Safe Anymore | Before You Quit #3
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
Release Date: 08/24/2026
449. Before You Quit, Pray This With Me | Before You Quit #7
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
Before You Quit, Pray This With Me | Before You Quit #7 What do you do when you're discouraged, overwhelmed and don't know what decision to make? Before you do anything else, turn toward God. In Day 7 of Before You Quit: Hope for the Christian Who Feels Done, Rob Skinner pauses to do something simple: Pray with you. If you're considering walking away from church, struggling in your relationship with God or simply feeling overwhelmed by fear, anger, disappointment and uncertainty, this short episode is for you. When life doesn't turn out the way we hoped, our minds can become filled with...
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448. Yesterday Is Not Prophecy: Don’t Limit What God Can Do
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
Yesterday Is Not Prophecy: Don’t Limit What God Can Do Have you ever looked at an area of your life and thought: “This is never going to change”? Maybe you've been single longer than you expected. Maybe your marriage has been difficult for years. Maybe you've prayed for one of your children to come back to God and nothing seems to be happening. Maybe your finances are stuck. Your career isn't moving. Your ministry isn't growing. You haven't helped someone become a Christian in years. And after enough disappointment, it's easy to start turning your history into a prediction: “This is...
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447. Thinking About Leaving Church? Watch for These Warning Signs | Before You Quit #6
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
Thinking About Leaving Church? Watch for These Warning Signs | Before You Quit #6 Most Christians who walk away from God don't make one dramatic decision to quit. They drift. In Day 6 of Before You Quit: Hope for the Christian Who Feels Done, Rob Skinner walks through the familiar pathway that can slowly lead a Christian out the door: Disappointment. Discouragement. Pulling back. Missing church. Avoiding conversations. Stopping time with God. Ghosting the people who love you. And eventually becoming spiritually empty. Rob points out that the warning signs often begin long before someone says,...
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446. Going to NASCON? Listen to This First | From the Archives
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
FROM THE ARCHIVES: With NASCON26 happening in Baltimore this weekend, we’re resurfacing one of Rob and Pam Skinner’s most practical episodes on how to make the most of a Christian conference. Originally recorded before the 2022 World Discipleship Summit, the principles are just as relevant for NASCON today. Going to NASCON26 in Baltimore this weekend? Listen to this before you go. We're bringing back this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast because the advice Pam and I shared about making the most of a conference may be more relevant than ever—especially for singles heading to NASCON26:...
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445. Still Struggling With Sin? Something Isn’t Wrong With You | Before You Quit #5
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
Still Struggling With Sin? Something Isn’t Wrong With You | Before You Quit #5 Have you ever looked at other Christians and wondered, “Why am I still struggling? Something must be wrong with me”? In Day 5 of Before You Quit: Hope for the Christian Who Feels Done, Rob Skinner addresses the shame, comparison, and imposter syndrome that can make Christians feel as though they’re only pretending to have it together. Everyone else seems happy. Everyone else seems spiritual. Everyone else seems to be growing. Meanwhile, you’re still fighting a sin you thought you should have conquered...
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444. Give God One Night a Week—and Watch What Happens
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
Give God One Night a Week—and Watch What Happens What if the biggest thing keeping you from making a difference for God isn’t a lack of talent, knowledge, or spirituality? What if you’re simply too busy? In this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast, Rob offers one simple challenge: Leave one night open. Choose one night every week and dedicate it to investing spiritually in another person. Study the Bible with someone searching for God. Mentor a younger Christian. Encourage someone who is struggling. Follow up with a new Christian. Train a future leader. It doesn’t sound dramatic—but...
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443. When Church Doesn’t Feel Safe Anymore | Before You Quit #3
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
When Church Doesn’t Feel Safe Anymore | Before You Quit #3 What happens when the place that once felt like family no longer feels safe? In Day 3 of Before You Quit: Hope for the Christian Who Feels Done, Rob Skinner addresses one of the most painful reasons Christians consider walking away: church hurt. Church can be a place of incredible friendship, growth, healing, and spiritual transformation. But churches are also filled with imperfect people. Conflict happens. Gossip spreads. Leaders disappoint us. People become controlling. Hypocrisy gets exposed. Relationships break down. And...
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442. You Got Advice—So Why Was It Still a Bad Decision?
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
You Got Advice—So Why Was It Still a Bad Decision? Can you seek advice and still make a terrible decision? Absolutely. In 1 Kings 12, two new kings—Rehoboam and Jeroboam—face some of the biggest decisions of their lives. Both seek advice. Both listen to advisors. And both make disastrous choices that affect generations. The problem wasn’t simply whether they asked for advice. The deeper question was: What were they looking for when they asked? Wisdom—or approval? God’s direction—or validation for something they had already decided? In this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast, Rob...
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441. When God Doesn’t Answer the Way You Prayed | Before You Quit #2
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
When God Doesn’t Answer the Way You Prayed | Before You Quit #2 When you’ve prayed, sacrificed, and trusted God for years—and the answer still doesn’t come—what happens to your faith? In Day 2 of Rob Skinner’s new book, Before You Quit: Hope for the Christian Who Feels Done, Rob shares one of the most personal and painful stories in the book. After becoming a Christian, Rob prayed intensely for his parents to come to faith. He hoped his father would turn to God before dying of pancreatic cancer. Years later, Rob moved his wife and three children to Ashland, Oregon, gave up a paid...
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440. The Decisions That Keep You Faithful: 6 Christians Share What Changed Everything
The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count
The Decisions That Keep You Faithful: 6 Christians Share What Changed Everything What decisions help a Christian stay faithful—not just for a few months or years, but for a lifetime? In this special live edition of the Rob Skinner Podcast, recorded during the Downtown Boston Midweek service, Rob sits down with six disciples at very different stages of their spiritual journeys. Some have followed Jesus for less than a year. Others have been faithful for more than four decades. Rob asks each person one question: What one decision changed the trajectory of your spiritual life? Their answers are...
info_outlineWhen Church Doesn’t Feel Safe Anymore | Before You Quit #3
What happens when the place that once felt like family no longer feels safe?
In Day 3 of Before You Quit: Hope for the Christian Who Feels Done, Rob Skinner addresses one of the most painful reasons Christians consider walking away: church hurt.
Church can be a place of incredible friendship, growth, healing, and spiritual transformation. But churches are also filled with imperfect people.
Conflict happens.
Gossip spreads.
Leaders disappoint us.
People become controlling.
Hypocrisy gets exposed.
Relationships break down.
And sometimes the people we trusted most are the people who hurt us.
Rob shares honestly about seasons when he felt spiritually empty and frustrated by what he experienced as excessive demands and micromanagement in the church. He also recounts being falsely accused by another Christian of inappropriate behavior after a photo of Rob baptizing someone in a hot tub was twisted into something entirely different.
The accusation was proven false, but the damage had already been done.
For the first time, Rob found himself struggling with feelings of hatred toward another Christian.
Drawing from Galatians 5:19–21, Rob points out something that can easily be overlooked: when Paul describes the “acts of the flesh,” he doesn't only mention sexual immorality and impurity. He also names hatred, discord, jealousy, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, and envy.
These are sins that can happen inside a church community—and they can deeply damage the faith of the people on the receiving end.
If you've been hurt, offended, betrayed, gossiped about, disappointed by leadership, or simply reached the point where church no longer feels like the family you thought it was going to be, this episode is for you.
Rob isn't asking you to pretend the hurt didn't happen.
He's asking you to hang on.
You are not the first Christian to experience church hurt, and you can make it through this season without giving up your relationship with God.
This episode is part of Rob Skinner's Before You Quit series, based on his new book, Before You Quit: Hope for the Christian Who Feels Done.
If someone came to mind while you were listening, send them this episode. It may be exactly what they need to hear today.
Before You Quit is available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.
Rob's goal is to inspire you to live a no-regrets life, make this life count, and multiply disciples, leaders, and churches.