Welcome to A Living Faith! In this blog I will share my thoughts and experiences as I try to be a follower of Jesus Christ. I have begun this blog in hopes of having companions who will meditate and think and pray along with me so that together, we can deepen our understanding and experience of God in Jesus Christ. Please join me in this conversation!
As a Christian I want to join with all Christians in worshiping and serving our Lord. However, it is important to know that I am willingly shaped by a particular Christian heritage--the Baptist heritage. In the introduction to a document called The Baptist Faith and Message it says, "Baptists are a people who profess a living faith...A living faith must experience a growing understanding of truth and must be continually interpreted and related to the needs of each new generation." The last statement summarizes my goal in writing this blog. I want to grow and I want us to grow together in an understanding of truth--a truth I believe to be God's truth most fully revealed in Jesus--and I want to understand how that truth is to be lived in our present context.
In my experience with Jesus, I have come to see that truth is not just intellectual and about the mind. Truth involves our whole being and experience because Jesus call us to follow Him. Truth is existential because Jesus was and is and is to come. Truth is lived, and is not just known and understood because Jesus lives in us. But living a faith in Jesus, living the truth, means living in a particular context at a particular time in a particular place. In my case, the context, place, and time is as the pastor of First Baptist Church in Black Mountain, North Carolina in the second decade of a new millennium.
So, if you will do me the honor, read these posts. Criticize or develop the ideas. Talk and share with me. Help me explore, as we live, this faith!
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