THE NEED FOR OUR OWN FAITH
The need for our own faith starts with the need to grow out of childhood and into adulthood. Most people pass on to adulthood physically but never with God. Childhood is identified by the way you see the world, and as a child you see the world how you are told it is. Adulthood is where you see things in your own way. When I say that I mean you have put thought into what you believe, and didn’t just take someone’s word for it. Our faith and relationship with God is a BIG deal. I know it does not always work this way but to say I am a Christian is to say I follow Christ. These words carry a heavy weight. It means I am not just a believer in Christ but a follower. This holds us to a standard. If that’s not worth doing some homework on than nothing is. Our faith should say more about us than if we go to church and where, so we must know what we believe and why. In the book Velvet Elvis the author has the sub title as “Repainting our Christian Faith.” I love this because the reasoning behind it that our faith is art work. Art can be looked at in so many ways. No one person or group could ever say that this one painting is art and all else falls short, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some people do graffiti, some do abstract, and others do portraits, and who can say to them that’s not art. No one can tell them what they see, just like no one can tell you what your faith should look like. This is not to say you can live however you want. There is a standard that we are held to when we pick up the name Christian. The goal of this book is not to teach you can live as you wish and say that’s what your faith looks like, but its to help us look into our hearts and see if the faith we are claiming or even living it truly our own. I think if you went from church to church and could see the souls of the youth and the adult congregation you would see that a lot of them are simply doing the things that they were told would make them a Christian. I don’t want to teach another generation that what I do is what they need to mimic but rather teach them to find there faith. This is lesson one and I want to use it to lead into Velvet Elvis.
