The Benefit of Doubt

How Confronting Your Deepest Questions Can Lead to a Richer Faith

By: Craig Groeschel

Narrated by: Craig Groeschel

Read by the author.

Audiobook-exclusive bonus content includes prayers from Craig at the end of each chapter.

Struggling with Doubt Doesn't Make You a Bad Christian--It Might Be What Saves Your Faith.

If you're secretly wrestling with questions about God, faith, or the Bible, you're not alone--and you're not broken.

In The Benefit of Doubt, bestselling pastor Craig Groeschel shows how your hardest spiritual questions can actually deepen your faith, not destroy it. Instead of hiding from doubt, Groeschel invites you to bring it into the light--and watch what God can do with it.

Through candid stories, biblical insight, and real-life struggles, Groeschel reframes doubt as a path, not a problem. With humor, humility, and hope, he walks alongside you to explore the most common (and often unspoken) spiritual questions--not with judgment, but with wisdom and empathy.

What You'll Learn:

• Why doubt doesn't mean your faith is weak--it means you're asking the right questions
• What to do when God feels silent, distant, or absent
• How to reconcile science and Scripture without giving up either
• Why unanswered prayers don't mean unanswered purpose
• How to talk about spiritual questions in communities that value certainty
• Why Jesus is still worth following, even when Christians fall short

How Readers Are Using This Book:

"This helped me reopen conversations with my teen about faith and doubt--without shame."

"We used this in our small group, and it unlocked a whole new level of honesty."

Readers are

• Using the book's reflection prompts for journaling or discussion
• Bringing it into small-group studies, church leadership circles, and counseling contexts
• Rebuilding faith after spiritual deconstruction or burnout
• Sharing it with teens, new believers, or friends quietly questioning their faith

Who This Book Is For:

• Christians silently struggling with doubt or spiritual disconnection
• Small-group leaders navigating honest faith conversations
• Believers going through deconstruction but still longing for God
• Pastors, parents, and mentors helping others process faith questions with compassion

Doubt isn't a dead end. It's an invitation to something deeper.

The Benefit of Doubt will help you rediscover a faith that not only can withstand your hardest questions but sees those questions as a way to draw closer to God.

Exercises and the appendix can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Outstanding teaching of Gods word

Love Craig’s teaching. Life.Church Rogers, AR. Learning to read through Gods love is the best advise I ever received 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Encouragement when walking with doubt

When I saw this title was coming out I jumped on checking it out. Glad I did!
Doubt has been a struggle for me the last 5 years after a major loss. I felt ashamed for having questions and doubting my walk with God. But the topics Craig touched on and the questions he answered helped me to see that doubt does happen and it’s not the end.
This will be a book I reference a lot and recommend to others.

Honest and thought provoking

I love Pastor Craig. He’s real and transparent and so gifted in delivering the raw Word of God.

The Benefit of Doubt.

Amazing book! Definitely would recommend this . It should be in everyone's toolbox. He has such a way with words that is not only authentic but pierces the heart.

Ok to work thru doubts

Loved the book - thanks Craig for another insightful piece of faith honoring literature. Our small group enjoyed as a study.