Faith Part 1

Faith Part 1

What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? In "Faith Part 1", Bishop Lance Johnson tackles that question head-on by confronting what he calls the church’s biggest blind spot: unbelief. Speaking out of his own past with addiction and bondage, Lance challenges the idea that doubt is normal and harmless. He insists that unbelief has quietly become “normalcy” in church culture and that it shuts the door on healing, freedom and miracles.

You’ll hear him ask a piercing question again and again: what’s the first thing that pops into your mind when someone says, "With God all things are possible"? The episode focuses on Matthew 17 and the story of a desperate father whose son is tormented and self-destructive. Lance highlights the man’s posture of kneeling, showing how surrender and worship reveal a person’s real view of God.

For anyone affected by alcohol, drugs or mental health struggles, his vivid examples of deliverance speak directly to those fears of relapse, overdose and generational pain. He pushes back hard against the idea that long-term recovery or lifelong labels are the only way, insisting that Jesus can “completely deliver and set those in bondage completely free,” including those trapped in addiction or PTSD.

At the same time, he doesn’t give the church a free pass, calling out leaders and believers who have replaced spiritual dependence with intellectual theories and institutional comfort. A key thread through the teaching is that real faith shows up in action, not just belief: “Faith can be seen. It is not what you confess.

It is what you do.” For people on a sobriety journey, this message offers a challenging but hopeful reminder that even a mustard seed of faith can move the biggest mountains. If you’ve ever wondered whether God could really heal addiction, restore families or break deep trauma, this episode asks you to rethink what you believe about Him—and about faith itself.