Northeast Christian Church
Q&A: Bible Answers for Life's Questions | Why Do I Get Stuck in My Faith?
We trust in God, who is bigger than our understanding. We experience goodness that we cannot explain. And yet somehow, the toughest questions in life pull us forward in boldness and deeper in humility.
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TWO REASONS PEOPLE GET STUCK IN THEIR FAITH:
1. We TRY OUT faith instead of TRAINING in faith.
-We want a growing faith without any COST.
-Trying can never match the POWER of training.
-Why would we believe we can GROW in our faith by trying vs. training when that strategy doesn't work anywhere else in life?
NEXT STEPS:
Starting Point ... Baptism ... Attend Church Regularly ... Group ... Serve ... Give ... Share Your Faith ... Lead/Coach
2. God intended our training to engage our whole selves: HEAD, HEART, and HANDS.
-We get stuck when we overtrain ONE and neglect the others.
THREE TYPES OF CHRISTIANS WHO GET OUT OF BALANCE:
1. The "FEED ME More" Christian: overtraining in head knowledge.
-More Bible KNOWLEDGE does not automatically correlate with spiritual GROWTH.
-Bible APPLICATION is directly correlated with spiritual GROWTH.
-Most Christians are EDUCATED beyond their level of OBEDIENCE.
2. The "FEELINGS Focused" Christian: an overreliance on emotion and feelings.
-Someone more focused on listening to their heart (feelings) than the TRUTH of God's Word.
-Your FEELINGS are not FACTS.
3. The "LOOK GOOD on the Outside" Christian: an over-focus on the hands without the heart.
-Someone focused on doing all the RIGHT things but often for the WRONG reasons.
-On the outside things can look METICULOUS, but on the inside we can be a MESS.
HAVE YOU BEEN OVERTRAINING IN ONE AREA OF YOUR LIFE?
-Head: You need to put your faith into ACTION. APPLY what you know.
-Heart: You need to rely more on GOD'S WORD, not your FEELINGS.
-Hands: You may need to deal with some HIDDEN SIN or IMPURE MOTIVES.
1. We TRY OUT faith instead of TRAINING in faith.
-We want a growing faith without any COST.
-Trying can never match the POWER of training.
-Why would we believe we can GROW in our faith by trying vs. training when that strategy doesn't work anywhere else in life?
NEXT STEPS:
Starting Point ... Baptism ... Attend Church Regularly ... Group ... Serve ... Give ... Share Your Faith ... Lead/Coach
2. God intended our training to engage our whole selves: HEAD, HEART, and HANDS.
-We get stuck when we overtrain ONE and neglect the others.
THREE TYPES OF CHRISTIANS WHO GET OUT OF BALANCE:
1. The "FEED ME More" Christian: overtraining in head knowledge.
-More Bible KNOWLEDGE does not automatically correlate with spiritual GROWTH.
-Bible APPLICATION is directly correlated with spiritual GROWTH.
-Most Christians are EDUCATED beyond their level of OBEDIENCE.
2. The "FEELINGS Focused" Christian: an overreliance on emotion and feelings.
-Someone more focused on listening to their heart (feelings) than the TRUTH of God's Word.
-Your FEELINGS are not FACTS.
3. The "LOOK GOOD on the Outside" Christian: an over-focus on the hands without the heart.
-Someone focused on doing all the RIGHT things but often for the WRONG reasons.
-On the outside things can look METICULOUS, but on the inside we can be a MESS.
HAVE YOU BEEN OVERTRAINING IN ONE AREA OF YOUR LIFE?
-Head: You need to put your faith into ACTION. APPLY what you know.
-Heart: You need to rely more on GOD'S WORD, not your FEELINGS.
-Hands: You may need to deal with some HIDDEN SIN or IMPURE MOTIVES.