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By and large we have over personalized our faith in Christ. We have made this my personal faith, my personal God, my personal Lord and Savior. These ideas have lead us to believe that faith is something you keep to yourself. Nothing could be further from the truth! Faith is something we share, we hold in common with the family of God and we hold out together for those seeking. Yet, in order to share our faith with the faithful and faithless alike we must have it. We must at some point say, “Yes, I am a believer, I have accepted Christ.” We must eventually take personal ownership. This Sunday we will be examining some, ways we connect with God. The primary challenge will simply be to go and find God. In preparation for this I wanted to put a self-assessment survey online that is part of the LIFE University curriculum which pertains to this message. You can access that file in the “Download Section” on the right or by clicking here. This quiz is developed from Gary Thomas’ questions in his book Sacred Pathways. This is a great book to help you find and discover your own path of worship. I highly recommend it and would recommend it to any of our small groups to be used with this free study guide. Discovering your path to God is like learning your and your spouses love language. It makes communication enjoyable and effective – isn’t that how we want our worship to be?

“You will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.”
As we grow in faith and start learning to love like Jesus, learning to touch people with the love of God, let us remember that God did this for us. Loving with the gloves off is difficult, because we don’t want to touch the untouchable, or love the unlovable. Why have we become so hard-hearted, so calloused? Is it that we have forgotten the depths from which we were saved? Have we lost sight of the fact that while we were untouchable God reached out to us? When we were unlovable God set his desirous gaze upon us! How can we imitate that? By loving the unlovable, by loving the ungrateful and the wicked. We may no longer be wicked but when we refuse to love others we are definitely ungrateful.

Study is hard work. It is so much easier to find something else to do in its place than to stay at the grind of it. We have excuses aplenty for avoiding the dull, hard, daily attempt to learn. There is always something so much more important to do than reading. There is always some excuse for not stretching our souls with new ideas and insights now or yet or ever.