Have you noticed how much of the Christmas story hinges on God’s conversations with the key characters and how they responded?
If you or someone you know is going through a process of deconstruction in their faith, here are some things to remember.
From the beginning, Heather had committed her relationship to God. She knew she must do what God had said.
God is a creative communicator and he uses the form that most effectively communicates what he wants to say to the person he is speaking to.
Even when we hear God’s voice, things can still go wrong. The interaction of God’s revelation with our fallen humanity means there are few solid rules.
Back in the first century, it wasn’t normal for men and women to be friends. But with his radical new ethic of equality, Jesus changed that.
Learning to hear God’s voice takes time and our ability to recognise the voice of the Spirit improves with experience and practice.
It’s easy to assume that once someone makes a decision to become a Christian, they automatically start acting like it. But this is largely a fallacy.
Self-righteousness, condemnation and finger-pointing seem to have become the order of the day, and it’s all the more repugnant when cloaked in religiosity.
God’s voice is best heard within the safety and accountability of the church community. This is the pattern we see in the early church.
