Meet the Rebel

Once afraid of God—Now obsessed with His goodness.

The Fear-Fueled Beginning

Hi, I’m Sara — Brazilian by birth, gospel renegade by calling.

I won’t tell you my age, but here’s a clue: I grew up in a world without internet, TikTok, or emojis, just dial-up tones and sermons that made God sound more like a ticking time bomb than a loving Father.

Raised in a rigid evangelical denomination, I was taught that Jesus made salvation possible, but it was still up to me to believe, behave, and never screw up or else. I tried. I failed. I spiraled.

Eventually, the fear of hell became so unbearable, I asked God to end my life. Not my faith—me. I simply couldn’t carry the weight of conditional love and eternal threat any longer.

Then grace found me.

Through Andrew Farley’s teaching, I learned that salvation wasn’t about what I did, but about what Christ had done. I could breathe again, but then a haunting question remained: What about everyone else?

Deconstruction & Revelation

With over 45,000 Christian denominations, each claiming to own “the truth,” I couldn’t accept the idea that people were being eternally punished for rejecting a message that even the church couldn’t agree on.

So, I questioned the unthinkable: What if hell wasn’t real?

That search led me to Rethinking Hell (a YouTube channel focused on challenging the doctrine of hell), where I discovered that the traditional doctrine of eternal torment was built on mistranslations, fear tactics, and centuries of distortion.

Around that time, I was sharing “salvation by faith” content on X (formerly Twitter), and when I began voicing my questions publicly, my online friend Brady Mayo reached out and dropped a truth bomb:
👉 If hell isn’t what we thought, what else have we misunderstood?

And just like that, everything shifted (and I lost a bunch of friends).
I didn’t have a tidy theology, but I had peace. I knew deep in my spirit that death was never God’s plan. LIFE, not torment, is His final word.

And grace? Oh, it’s far bigger than we ever imagined.
Brady introduced me to universal reconciliation—something I once dismissed as an Orthodox heresy. (Oops.) And suddenly… the Gospel made sense.

Reclaiming the Real Good News

From there, I dove headfirst into books that lit up my soul and rewired my theology. I started with Love Wins by Rob Bell—a doorway into a God bigger than fear. Then came The Shack by Paul Young, which wrecked and healed me all at once. I actually watched the movie first during the pandemic lockdowns and was completely overwhelmed by love. But I needed a little more time to fully grasp the unconditional and immeasurable love of our Papa.

But one of the most impactful reads for me was The Claim of Humanity in Christ by Alexandra S. Radcliff—a deeply moving and scholarly exploration of our union with Christ. She unpacks the profound idea that Jesus doesn’t just act for humanity—He acts as humanity, using the concept of vicarious humanity.

From there, I found Baxter Kruger’s The Undoing of Adam, which felt like spiritual CPR. Then came Brad Jersak’s A More Christlike Word, challenging everything I thought I knew about the Bible; And Peter Hiett’s The History of Time And The Genesis of You, which opened my eyes to the epic scope of God’s redemptive story.

Since 2022, I’ve been growing in the unshakeable truth of a good God, a victorious Savior, and our unbreakable union with the Divine Family.

Now? I’m on a mission.
A rebel with a cause.

I want every Christian to know that God’s grace is greater than anything we could ever imagine. And I want to tell those who’ve rejected messy Christianity that they, too, are included in Christ—and their joy will be made complete, whether in this life or the life to come. My hope? That we all start living from that truth here and now.

Through Gospel Reclaimed, I’m digging into Scripture, exposing mistranslations, and reclaiming the real Good News—the one that actually sounds like Jesus.

So if you’ve ever wondered,
“Could God really be that good?”

Let me say:
Absolutely! Even better than your best dream. And once you see it, you’ll wonder how you ever doubted.