Once afraid of God—Now obsessed with His goodness.
Hi, I’m Sara
I exist to proclaim reconciliation and to remind humanity of its unbroken union with God.
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?
What about those who may never encounter the message of free grace?
What about those who didn’t reject Jesus, only the distorted versions of Christianity they were given?
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 through faith alone” and “once salved, always saved” content on X (formerly Twitter), and when I began voicing my questions publicly, I first lost a bunch of friends—but then my online friend Brady Mayo reached out and dropped a truth bomb:
👉 If hell isn’t what I thought, what else have I misunderstood?
And just like that, everything shifted. 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.
My journey didn’t begin in abstraction. I dove headfirst into books that lit up my soul and rewired everything I thought I knew. Love Wins by Rob Bell opened the door to a God bigger than fear. The Shack by Paul Young followed—wrecking and healing me all at once. I actually watched the movie first during the pandemic lockdowns and was completely overwhelmed by love, though it took time for the depth of Papa’s unconditional goodness to fully settle in.
One of the most impactful reads came as a gift from my very dear friend Mike Dale: The Claim of Humanity in Christ by Alexandra S. Radcliff—a deeply moving and scholarly exploration of our union with Christ. Her work articulates a truth that changed everything for me: Jesus does not merely act for humanity—He acts as humanity. That vision of vicarious humanity clarified what union truly means.
From there, I encountered Baxter Kruger’s The Undoing of Adam, which felt like spiritual CPR—beautifully laying out how humanity now finds its origin in Christ. This was followed by Brad Jersak’s A More Christlike Word, which challenged 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 vast and beautiful scope of God’s redemptive story.
Since 2022, I’ve been growing in an unshakable confidence in a good God, a victorious Savior, and a Spirit-empowered, unbreakable participation in the life of the Divine Union.
I wish I could speak only about what it looks like to live from Christ—to be God’s embodied expression in human form, just as He taught us to be. But before that can happen, layers of the religious onion must be peeled away. That means addressing misleading Bible translations, inherited assumptions, and distorted views of God and ourselves.
That’s where Gospel Reclaimed comes in.
This space exists to encourage Christians to move beyond the religion handed down to us and to seek truth in the original texts—now accessible through modern tools. It’s an invitation to reclaim the Gospel that compelled the first believers to sell everything they had for the sake of community, and that empowered others to face death while singing praises to Jesus Christ.
What was that power?
I believe it was assurance—deep, settled certainty—in God’s salvation and a living knowledge of who they truly were.
Now? I’m on a mission.
A rebel with a cause.
I want every Christian to know that God’s grace is far greater than anything we were taught to expect. And I want those who walked away from messy Christianity to know this too: you are included in Christ, and your joy will be made complete, whether in this life or the life to come.
So if you’ve ever wondered,
“Could God really be that good?”
Let me say this clearly:
Absolutely. Even better than your best dream.
And once you see it, you’ll wonder how you ever doubted.