BORN SAVED Alex Verville

I’m a 45-year old, single, former 3-day-a-week church-goer, small group leader, weekly church volunteer, missionary, passion and purity-i kiss dating goodbye- virgin until 44 (actually i hand even kissed a guy until that same year) and 3 hour-hour-a-day pray and reader of the bible. Mid 2020 I left the USA in search of what my soul wasn’t experiencing in the US or within the church. I was desperate to see the magical and mysterious - anything ‘beyond’ my dead, dormant, dull logic. I had NO idea the shape the path would take, but, almost serendipitously, it’s incredibly similar to Alex’s journey. I too became cracked open as I shifted my ‘proof texts’ from Puritanical enlightenment thinking, to my own experience. I saw it first in old, dank churches in London, Spain, and Portugal that proclaimed a subservient, submissive and bent-soul-posture were how were to experience His goodness. To Istanbul, where I felt more loving and open energy in the Haggai Sofia than I did in my own church back home, to post-Soviet Tbilsi, Georgia where I saw again, the oppression of an religious organization whose piety structures kept people, closed and angry and in the posture of a grateful beggars. To Bali, where I thought I would find all kinds of Magic, but saw there, how self-proclaimed gurus use their exotic Balinese backdrop to validate their own spiritual prison systems that keep people dependently ‘on a leash’ with them. I SAY ALLLLLLL OF THAT (it’s a lot for a review i know) to emphasize the following. Alex is a voice for this new generation. His soul is here for this. His insights feel so familiar, it’s almost like something i may have written in my own journal…. Which make me feel aligned to The things he saying that much more. His history of being ‘in the faith’ builds immediate trust. He articulates the things Christians ‘don’t say’ but the internal conflict many of us who have grown up in the faith experience. He dares suggest the thing that was the last straw before I said I started really expanding… And that’s the truth of “Christ & “… Not “Christ only ‘… not Bible only .. no Quran only… And he does so with grace, wisdom, meaty insight and a generous neutrality. His refreshing honesty while recounting the details of his story connects us even further to hidden truths of our own. This podcast is important. It offers the thousands of us beginning to poke our heads up out from what we’ve been taught -to a new world of inner knowing. Thank you 🤍🙏🏻 Alex (and Jas. *So glad you said yes to the TBM podcast ;-)

Alex does an amazing job going into the depth of perspective of the meaning and understanding of the lives we are living. Questioning the old and bringing forth a new, for us to gain a deeper understanding of life. I’m truly grateful for these words he brings forth. Calming & soothing for the ears to listen to. Grateful beyond words for his wisdom!

I have listened to each episode more than once now and have taken something new each time. I grew up (especially my formative teenage years) in a very Baptist church where so many verses were being pulled from the Bible and distorted each and every week and although I felt off, I couldn’t explain it and yet I knew there was something more to this, something different. The God I know, the Jesus I am told about each week at church cannot be the one you speak of, the one who says such things and turns down his children because of a b and c and yet there I was. These episodes bring me back to my place of questioning and validate my uneasiness, I hear the verses that Alex mentions and many I have heard before but they ring different now and it’s so beautiful to be able to say that I no longer feel this animosity when I hear the text. This is the truest most vulnerable story I have heard from someone who was so entrenched in the “Christian world” and found a way out, found their truth and they’re not afraid to say it! This is profound and I truly recommend to anyone everyone i know especially sooo many of those that are in this middle space of leaving the church and not knowing where to go. Thank you Alexander for all you do, for your vulnerability, for your honesty, and for speaking your truth and allowing us to do the same 🙏