Journeys of Faith and Love
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For that reason, the presence of others can help us find our way. The church as the community of the forgiven Ask yourself: What is your spiritual background? If you share your response with others, you will find that everyone's journey has been different. Yet it is in the sharing of our experiences that we start the process of becoming a community Our experience with the church usually begins with someone caring enough to invite us into the community Some might call this 'evangelism,' while others would view this as simply expressing Christian love.
Niles, a Methodist missionary in India, once said, "Evangelism is one beggar telling another where bread can be found.
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When asked, "Why are you a Christian? The 'community' of the early church grew as the apostles shared their experiences, spent time together, broke bread together and praised God. The early believers were 'doing church' as the people of God What word or phrase comes to mind when you hear the word church?
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Is it a place, a feeling, or something else? In reflecting on these questions, try to remain open. Discuss your experiences with others and listen to theirs. A church can be as close as family. Particularly for those who may be separated from their loved ones, the church can be a place to celebrate good times and cry during life's difficult times, a place where others will look to you for fellowship and support. Church can offer guidance on your spiritual path and the company of fellow travelers.
The Journey with the Human Jesus Jesus is at the center of the community of the forgiven. It is Jesus who offers forgiveness to us all.
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The human Jesus is God incarnate, God with us. The word incarnation literally means "has human characteristics. We can see Jesus' humanness in Biblical accounts of his anger, his highs and lows, his loneliness, and choices. Oftentimes, our greater challenge is to see our own holiness God within each of us. Jesus is also the one who asks us to change. The Greek word metanoia is often translated as "repent," but the more correct understanding is probably "deep change.
What attracts us to him? What are his compelling characteristics? Honest answers to these questions express our faith.
Yet, there is a catch. With faith also comes doubt. If you had the opportunity to speak directly to Jesus, what would you ask?
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What are the doubts and uncertainties that trouble you in your faith. Why do so many bad things happen? Why don't I hear God when I pray? Why do so many people interpret your words so differently? We cannot have faith without some doubts, without questions Journey with the Eternal Christ: Experiencing the post-Easter Jesus In John Thomas is absent then and doubts what the others have seen. A week later the disciples meet in the same place, and Jesus again stands among them. Thomas, now present, is able to touch the wounds of the risen Lord. This scripture describes a 'sacramental moment' for Thomas.
Sacraments are physical activities that help us experience the spiritual.
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Thomas touched the risen Jesus and immediately saw Jesus as the Christ. It is Thomas' Easter story Sacramental moments are not limited to Biblical stories Sometimes these sacramental moments are called 'thin places'; they're where the world of the spiritual and the world of the physical meet. Thin places may be what some call mountaintop experiences. These special moments of closeness to God can happen outdoors as we experience the grandeur of nature, or occur when we, like Thomas, have retreated to a closed room in fear.
Can you recall a sacramental moment or a thin place? It may be a moment frozen in your memory. Can you remember the sounds, sights, smells?
Finally, if there is one thing that we want to say to God now, it is "thank you". Sacramental moments are not limited to Biblical stories The Map offers a compelling call to the modern church to re-examine what it means to be both a man and a disciple of Christ. When I was in elementary school, my faith was strictly a matter of hope — it was something I clung to when nothing else was okay. Use those that are meaningful to you as guideposts, pointing down a road you may not yet have explored. But the calling got stronger. For a start, we attended our first monthly group rosary prayer session in our neighbourhood.
The key questions is how do we experience Christ today? One answer is that we experience Christ in these thin places. Prayer Prayer is food for the journey. Many times we think of prayer as public prayer, and that makes us uncomfortable. Yet prayer can also be a deep and personal conversation with God. Prayer gives us time to acknowledge God's presence in and around us, to acknowledge our place in the world that God has created, and to stop and wait on Jesus.
What are we to make of the path and the others on it? Five new books offer different perspectives, and all are worthy guides. God works in mysterious ways A Field Guide to God: Rather than a willful decision, it came to her as a gradual slipping away of her childhood faith—the simple confidence she once had that God was present slowly faded into an overwhelming sense of absence. As a young woman, she concluded that her former faith had been a fantasy, and fell into atheism.
But something would not let her go. A longing, a yearning that she could not explain, drew her to seek again for God, until years later—grown, married and pursuing life as a writer and teacher—she discovered God again. This journey, and the subsequent growth in her Christian faith, is woven throughout the book, offering a masterful and beautiful examination of what faith is, who God is and what a life with God can be. Each pithy statement related to areas of her own life, from her years as a single mother, to discovering love at 40, to surviving breast cancer at The list went viral, traveling across the world in emails and on websites, with readers everywhere responding to her simple message.
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Now Brett has expanded upon each of these lessons, drawing stories from her life, her other columns and most of all, her faith, to explain the power and truth behind her list. The result is both wise and moving, and a remarkable testimony to the power and love of God. Finding your own path What if the journey of faith actually came with a map?
The Way of All Great Men. The book begins like a suspense novel, with Murrow himself in pursuit of an ancient map, supposedly given by Jesus to his disciple Matthew, which now lies hidden within a remote Greek monastery. Murrow hints that another book will cover a similar map for women.