100 Days to a Healthier ChurchSample

Assessment Week

(Week 14)

Day 94

Today’s Big Idea: Confident assurance. Everyone has their own idea of what faith is. In today’s passage, we’ll see the only definition that matters—the one written in scripture.

Key Verse: Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see (Hebrews 11:1).

Thoughts to Consider: For a lot of people, when they hear the word faith, the words confidence and assurance are among the least likely synonyms they can imagine. Many people don’t consider faith to be confident and assured; it often feels more uncertain and unreal, maybe even imaginary. But biblical faith is the confident assurance that God will do what He said because He has always done what He said.

Your congregation has taken a bold step of faith. When you think about what this step means for the future of your church, does it fill you with confident assurance? That’s faith. Or are you filled with fear? Certainly, some fear is appropriate. New things can be scary. But, like courage, faith is not the absence of fear, it’s proceeding despite your fear. That’s confident assurance.