I've been a Christian since I was 8 and went to Sunday Schools since I was 5 and now in my early 40s the one thing that I find about the Christian life is the lack of people who would talk to you honestly about the questions of life and Christian living. There are not many people who will listen to your issues of the meaning of life and the things that don't add up, about the tension and discrepancy, about the practicality of Christian living, and openly share their own struggles and conclusions. Maybe because many themselves are struggling with those issues and still are. May be because they just don't have an answer and don't know what to say. They therefore give standard regurgitated answers. That is what makes Christianity boring and irrelevant.
You know what? It's ok even if there are no answers, to ponder about those difficult questions of life because it is when we come through those questioning times and still conclude that we will trust in Him regardless, that faith really comes to play. It is those type of bare bone sharing and transparency that makes it easier for others to join in the journey with us. It's ok that we are in a journey but don't pretend that life is a bed of roses, even as a Christian.
So I have resolved today to listen to those who are struggling in their faith, those who are babes and who are still tossing in the wind and to reason with them why we should still trust in God because there are more reasons to do so than not.
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