This Sunday I'll begin a new series called "Faith: Pursuing Christ." I think a lot of the time, we think about faith as the stuff that we believe. Although that is true, I think faith has more to do with believing that a pen will drop from our hand and hit the ground when we let it go. Faith should impact the way we live, should it not? Can faith be a verb? Can it be something that we do, or show?
The crowds who followed Jesus in "The Feeding of the 5000" had faith. When they heard Jesus was near, they found him and followed him. Jesus had compassion for them, healed them, and fed them...Here's the thing though: Jesus told his disciples to feed the crowds. They responded with how little they had. They gave it to Jesus, he blessed it, and then it fed everyone. I think that's a picture of what faith is like, knowing that when we give what we have to Jesus, we can answer his call to "give them something to eat."
In this series, I hope to retell some old gospel series about what it means to have faith and pursue Jesus. We will look at this feeding of the 5000, the walking on the water, the faith of a Canaanite woman, Peter's confession of Christ, and the cost/reward of faith. I look forward to this journey with you all.
See you Sunday!
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