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Faithful, Faith Knows, Day 24

by David Joynt on January 29, 2019

Faithful, Faith Knows, Day 24

MATTHEW 18:2-4 | He called a child, whom he put among them, and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Yesterday, I asked whether every Christian had to be an intellectual. The answer, thankfully, is no! But intellectuals do play a key role within the church, helping us make sense of our faith in the midst of change and challenge. After all, we will encounter other philosophies of life in educational settings like the university, and in relationship with other people at work and in our daily lives. If we want our faith not to be a private and isolated affair, we must relate it to other kinds of conviction, especially today to scientific modes of thought and to theories of politics and justice. We can do so with confidence because of the depth and power and variety of our traditions—we have more intellectual resources than any other body of thought.

Yet one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the 20th Century, theologian Karl Barth, was asked about his voluminous work and how it supported his faith and said, “Jesus loves me this I know—for the Bible tells me so.” Some of the deepest and most effective Christians have simple faith convictions, lived out with deep passion.

Are you confident about Christian truth claims?

What simple truths of the faith guide your life practices?

Meditate on Jesus’ words in our scripture today.

 


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