The Christian Atheist

Craig Groeschel coins the term "Christian atheist" to describe believers — himself included — who affirm God's existence while making every practical decision as if he weren't involved. Drawing on his own painful reckoning as a pastor who realized he'd been doing exactly this, Groeschel walks through the specific ways belief and daily practice quietly diverge: worry that functions like disbelief in God's care, busyness that crowds out dependence on him, fear that overrides trust.

The book is structured as a direct challenge for readers to examine where their own lives contradict what they claim to believe, aimed at both lifelong Christians and skeptics who suspect the church is full of exactly this kind of gap.