About Kyle & Diligent
I came up in a Restoration Movement church that was confident about their own understanding, but I often felt the foundations were shaky and thin. The church was quick to point out error in other traditions—so quick that I grew up thinking other Jesus followers were lost because their practices didn’t match ours exactly. The gospel I was taught felt more like a boundary marker than an invitation. I heard a lot about what made us different and why others were wrong. Something essential was missing, and that led to years of wrestling with Scripture.
What became clear was that Restoration Movement theology had real strengths worth preserving. The tradition’s commitment to Scripture, its seriousness about baptism and discipleship, its insistence that following Jesus should actually change how we live—these things matter. But I also found parts that relied on reductive readings and flattened categories, where rich biblical concepts turned into formulas, and formulas replaced relationship with God.
My goal is finding better ways to talk about Scripture—ways that honor what’s actually there without over-speaking it. I have no claim to special authority. I’m just someone who loves this tradition enough to want it reformed from within, preserving its strengths while addressing its weaknesses.
I regularly teach Bible classes, working to challenge people to grow in faithfulness and deepen their relationship with God through His Word. Many of the articles here are an outpouring of things I feel called to bring into the conversation. I hope they cause you to consider your own understanding in the same way other writers and ordinary disciples have caused me to reconsider mine.
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