Monday, December 4

10 days of vision...

“Faith is less a destination and more like a vehicle. It takes to new places of experience and joy.”

“Faith should be a lifetime of CHANGE....growing, deepening...becoming more intimate with Jesus....CHANGE....becoming more than I ever expected it to be.”

“We have to respect everyone's own process of faith and discovery, and not get in the way of what God is doing…”

“I pray that we are a church that trusts God in each other.”

Mark Nelson at 7:46 PM 5comments

5 Comments

at 10:14 PM  The Watson Family said...

Ever since I can remember I was taught to seek out the answers without carrying so much about the questions. If we are truly going to celebrate the mystery then our dialogue will need to start and end with questions. It's not that answers never come into play; its just that answers are more about a destination and questions are more about the journey. Do we ever 'get right with God' or instead do we walk with God?

 

at 10:39 PM  Unknown said...

To me, this says that it is ok to struggle with your faith. It is ok to have questions and want them to be answered.

 

at 9:43 AM  Anonymous said...

We have a rich heritage of holy struggle--I don't mean in the crusade sense, but in taking advantage of the intimacy God has enables us to have with Him. A lifelong example for me has been David. The Psalms are rife with instances of him fighting, questioning, wrestling, demanding, lamenting, howling, as well as praising, yet we tend to think of the praising as what the Psalms are all about. He dared to question things when his real life experiences demanded it, and he did not hesitate to pick up his faith and examine it from all angles. And God did not condemn David for such boldness--He called him a man after his own heart, he called him friend. Friends talk, and they talk about ALL of what life's about. There were no taboo topics, no unutterable questions, no places in the heart that were unworthy of exposure.

May it be so with us.

 

at 6:19 PM  Anonymous said...

To question God and Life is a very normal (and human) thing to do. It is also necessary for spiritual growth. Many churches don't allow this to happen. To question God and life is to doubt and that is seen as "bad". People are asked to silence their fears and write them off as "lack of faith". ALl you have to do is look at the Bible to see that many men and women wrestled with God. Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, Moses, Ester, David, Jonah, Job, Paul, Peter,(the list goes on and on) even Jesus struggled with God.

I'm glad we have a family that will go through our struggles with us.

 

at 11:46 AM  Anonymous said...

I don't know if you have ever wrestled, but it can be a messy, nasty, mean thing. Not only that but it takes an enormous amount of practice,strength, endurance and dedication. To practice and get better (to understand more about the "game" and how to perform better) you need others to wrestle with you, coaches to direct you, and countless others to dress you down when you deserve it and build you up when you need it. I hope that we can be a community that will not be afraid to wade in individually and with each other when it is time to wrestle!

 

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