The Danger of Consuming Other People’s Relationship With God

Ally Yost opens this episode of Christ With Coffee On Ice with a confession: she loves Pinterest, she’s wearing a bandana she found inspiration for there, and she’s aware of the irony of what she’s about to say. As a Christian content creator herself, she is part of the ecosystem she wants to examine. Her central question is not whether Christian content is good or bad—she believes it is good, and that God uses it—but whether we are mistaking consumption of content about God for actual relationship with God.

The Difference Between Knowing About God and Knowing Him

Yost draws a sharp distinction that runs through the entire episode: “Just because we have unlimited access to information about God doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the same thing as knowing God.” She describes a scenario many listeners might recognize—waking up to a Christian podcast, scrolling testimonies on TikTok, watching a video on how to pray over your home, and then feeling at the end of the day as if you’ve spent time with God. But as she puts it, “Did we? Or did we just spend a lot of time listening to people talk about God?”