HEROIC FAITH

Hey Turtles,

Below you will find some notes from my recent presentation on Heroic Faith. The actual outline of the talk would be too long and awkwardly abbreviated to post here... so I have expanded some of what I believe to be the most important points. Peace!

Our God is a living God and we get to enter into a relationship with Him. This relationship is what gives our lives full meaning. Undoubtedly, this is the most important relationship that we will ever have.

Heroic faith is about how we enter into relationship with our Living God. Heroic faith requires that we be fully open and honest with God about what state we are in. It requires that we be completely authentic.

By completely authentic I mean...

That when we are joyful we dance with HIm.

When we are broken we lay before Him.

When we are angry we wrestle with Him.

When we are doubtful we cry out for Him.

This is requires a level of openness that few people ever achieve with themselves, let alone in a relationship with another. It is because this level of relationship with God requires such courage and perseverance that we call it HEROIC.

But we don't have to be worried about being honest with God... because He created, sustains and watches over us... He already knows where we are!

We love to make excuses for why we cannot have heroic faith. We even look at those heroes (saints) in the faith who have gone before us and convince ourselves that they were made of something stronger than we are. 

That is not true! We are made of the same stuff-- we have been made by the same God, we are loved by the same Father and we have received the same spirit!

Saints are just the sinners who keep getting back up when knocked off the path of holiness. Over time... their heroic commitment to God eclipses their brokenness and imperfection.

There is no sin in coming before God as we are. It is no more a sin to wrestle with God than it would be to dance before Him. Similarly, it is no more a sin to ask God if He exists than it would be to lay yourself before Him in your brokenness.