People search this question on Google about 30 times a week… If you’re one of those 30 people, this post is for you!
If you’re at church 3-4 times each week, you’ll also benefit from what I have to say. You’re probably wondering how to help other people become more consistent, and this post applies.
I don’t feel like praying. I almost never do.
This used to slow me down, but here are some principles that have greatly helped.
I have an aversion to changes of context. If I’m doing chores around the house, I want to keep doing them. If I’m reading or typing at my computer, I want to keep doing that. When it’s time to go to bed, I don’t want to. And when it’s time to get out of bed I don’t want to. It takes emotional energy to shift your context, to drop an activity, and to orient yourself to a new one.
Always have a ready defense for the hope within you, says 1 Peter 3:15. What is that defense?
Some Christians will tell you they believe God’s Word, and he is God, and that settles it. But this kind of argument is no defense. It isn’t even logical. It presupposes the very thing it sets out to defend.
Growing up in a variety of churches, I had the chance to hear diverse perspectives. What is faith? Why should we have faith? Some people told me it was wrong to ask too many questions or to have doubts. Others said questions and doubts were part of the process of taking an idea seriously. It’s not bad to doubt, if you work through that doubt and find the truth.
For people to see the Lord—that’s my passion. Our most pressing need is to see and understand God.
When we know what God is like and why he is good, that’s when we’ll have:
How do we see what God is like? We look to divinely inspired Scripture to see his words and deeds.
One of the most important questions for the Christian thinker is:
How does the truth of Scripture relate to the truth of philosophy, or science, or history?
If we put it in terms of “revelation,” it becomes: How does special revelation relate to general revelation?
