Faith

So I've been reading this book, "How to Give Away Your Faith" by Paul Little, and I have to say it's good. It's also rather convicting. It begins with the reader, telling me (in this case) how I have to have my act together.

What's most interesting to me is its take on 3 types of faith that people who have enough genuine Christian feeling to actually read an evangelism book. The first is based on surrounding, place, and isn't really faith. These are the christian kids that 'go wild' once they're out 'from under thumb'. Upon removal from the surrounding, they realize they have nothing, no real personal faith, they simply lived life by osmosis. These can be the seed that sprouts on the rocks. They're just sort of week, because they don't know what they believe, it was just what everybody else was doing. Unfortunately, I think this largely describes a huge chunk of the mid-western US christians. This I think is a large problem in modern youth groups also.

The next is a sort of intellectual faith. They know all the hymns, the right words, they can even sometimes argue the apologetics, the different doctrinal interpretations, and the harmony of the gospels. But they are like the former, they don't really know more. These are the ones to whom it refers when it says "Even the demons know there is a God, and they tremble."

The last is a faith based on knowing God. A true, heartfelt, knowledge, or even more accurately, a yearning to know him more throughly every dya. This is the faith that a true christian is supposed to have. The question is, do I? Do you? I was impressed by the very pointed remark to examine myself before evangelizing.

Okay, I'm done rambling for now.