When we SEE the power of a living Christ, then we fear the God of action and creation. We experience the deliverance ourselves and rejoice in the salvation of the collective church. The qualitative difference in divine action removes all doubt and we ‘believe the Lord’ (Ex. 14:31). Praise and worship follow that salvation (Ex. 15), that deliverance, that sand-under-our-sandals reality. God shows up, just in time. Our enemies are dead on the shore. We can move on in freedom. Seeing is, in fact, believing.

• Engage!
• belief, faith
• July 7, 2020

This is the real tragedy. We don’t live by faith because we really don’t trust the living God. Our churches, our programs, our conduct is altogether human, too human. Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of compromised Christians, we ourselves default to a level of mediocrity that does not look like the mighty faith of the New Testament.

• Engage!
• belief, faith
• April 6, 2016