Growing Pains

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” – Jesus, to his disciples

Matthew 16:15

Have you ever wondered? Ever had doubts? Would you believe me if I said that’s perfectly normal? If you are truly growing in your faith you should expect some growing pains. Doubt and faith dance together along the journey. But we were never meant to walk this path alone. The Church is to worship together, study together, sit at table together, and laugh together. We hold one another through the valley of the shadow of death and we pray for each other always. Take every opportunity to worship, to sing, to explore scripture, to pray with friends who love you. Doubt is not always the end of faith. It is often part of the struggle toward a deeper relationship with God.

See you Sunday!
~Missy