Faith is described as substance, therefore it should be substantial.
Faith must be concrete.
Faith must be real, and practical, and applied to real life, real pain, and real suffering.
Faith is more than belief, it is a life that emerges from an ultimate concern that grips our hearts and minds.
Faith is not a salve to our angst but rather the very force that pulls our attention toward the world’s pain
Faith is learning to live without knowing, it is a humbling knowledge of our unknowing.
Faith is a verb.
Faith, as a verb, is a response to the proclamation of truths such as resurrection, forgiveness, or the hope of the Kingdom of God. These preached realities are not so much external realities that we know and point to as they are present realities when we respond to in living, faithful action.
It is faith we find in Jesus, who stood with the poor and identified fully with the oppressed, died as an executed criminal, and in the throes of that agonizing death cried out “my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
It is this God forsaken one, who died in solidarity with every victim of every crime that this world has ever known, who is said to be the Logos, the word, the purpose, the argument, the point, made flesh.
The ideal made concrete.
We believe this Christ crucified to be the representative of God on earth, and so we see the glory of God in the face of the man who was executed on the gallows. Likewise, it is a glory found in the faces of the sick, the poor, the dying, and the marginalized.
The freedom of God comes to earth not through crowns- that is to say, through the struggle for power- but through love and solidarity with the powerless.
This conviction and the life it compels is the evidence, the only evidence, of what is otherwise unseen. We live and rehearse that hoped for reality in each and every moment. This is the substance that is our faith.
May God receive it as worship.
Faith must be real, and practical, and applied to real life, real pain, and real suffering.
Faith is more than belief, it is a life that emerges from an ultimate concern that grips our hearts and minds.
Faith is not a salve to our angst but rather the very force that pulls our attention toward the world’s pain
Faith is learning to live without knowing, it is a humbling knowledge of our unknowing.
Faith is a verb.
Faith, as a verb, is a response to the proclamation of truths such as resurrection, forgiveness, or the hope of the Kingdom of God. These preached realities are not so much external realities that we know and point to as they are present realities when we respond to in living, faithful action.
It is faith we find in Jesus, who stood with the poor and identified fully with the oppressed, died as an executed criminal, and in the throes of that agonizing death cried out “my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
It is this God forsaken one, who died in solidarity with every victim of every crime that this world has ever known, who is said to be the Logos, the word, the purpose, the argument, the point, made flesh.
The ideal made concrete.
We believe this Christ crucified to be the representative of God on earth, and so we see the glory of God in the face of the man who was executed on the gallows. Likewise, it is a glory found in the faces of the sick, the poor, the dying, and the marginalized.
The freedom of God comes to earth not through crowns- that is to say, through the struggle for power- but through love and solidarity with the powerless.
This conviction and the life it compels is the evidence, the only evidence, of what is otherwise unseen. We live and rehearse that hoped for reality in each and every moment. This is the substance that is our faith.
May God receive it as worship.
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