Bachelor alum Madi Prewett is getting real about past issues that she claims she had with her church community.
“I can relate to being really hurt by the church, being judged by the church [and] gossip taking place about me in the church,” Prewett, 29, said on the Monday, August 4, episode of her “Stay True” podcast, while speaking to author and Bible teacher Lisa Harper. “It is really, really hard.”
As Prewett attempted to navigate her interpersonal issues, she said that she started pull away from her faith.
“Honestly, for about a year, I found myself distancing myself from the church,” she explained. “[I was] falling into the, like, listening to sermons but not going and not partaking in small group and fellowship within the body of Christ.”
Prewett added, “I had this moment of realization as I was talking it up with God, and just realizing, ‘OK, I’ve been hurt by the church, but I’ve also been absolutely changed and transformed by the church. I’ve been hurt by people of God, but I’ve also been healed and freed by people of God through the spirit of God.’”
According to Prewett, she realized that she was “only hurting” herself by maintaining a distance from the church.
“I had to grieve and I had to figure that out with the Lord for myself,” she said. “I want anyone listening [to know] the importance of being plugged into a local church, the importance of having community [and] the importance of finding wise counsel. That’s so needed.”
Prewett has also bonded with her husband, Grant Troutt, over their shared faith.
“I wake up, I go have my time with God. I have a prayer closet and I get in my prayer closet and I pray and I just spend time reading the Bible and just, like, filling myself up and reminding myself of what’s most important,” Prewett exclusively told Us Weekly in 2023. “And then from that place, I’m able to really be the wife that God’s called me to be and to really love him well and to meet his needs. I think we’ve both seen the importance of that, especially when conflict arises.”
She continued at the time, “If I have not spent time with the Lord and if I have not reminded myself of what’s most important, that’s where a really, you know, not-so-pretty side of Madi can come out and I can just be really selfish and just have such unfair expectations. And so that’s why it’s really important for me to kind of get my heart right in the mornings and to just align myself with the Lord and kind of love from that place.”
Prewett and Troutt, 29, started dating in 2021 and got married in October 2022. They welcomed their first child, daughter Hosanna, earlier this year.
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