Sharing Your Faith
We all find it hard to share our faith, but this can often be down to the way we try to share it. In sharing your faith we share our practical insights and experiences into how to share your faith with others.
Monday, 17 December 2007 01:00 | and posted in Sharing Your Faith
I hate flying, especially landing and taking off. Actually the bit in between is not that enjoyable either! However it's something that just has to be done.
On one particular flight to Belfast we had started to descend and I was starting to freak out as usual. What could I do? The friend sitting next to me had a fascinating job in HIV research which I didn't know much about, so I decided that instead of focussing on my fear I would concentrate on something I really enjoy - asking questions! By the time we landed I had an incredible insight into the devastation of HIV and AIDS worldwide, and I had been beautifully distracted from another fear inducing landing!!
Monday, 03 December 2007 01:00 | and posted in Sharing Your Faith
I quite like the poem 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll:*
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.'
The problem is that 'Jabberwocky' is just Lewis Carroll's fantasy and is full of "made-up" words. There is no meaning to them. So no-one really knows what it means.
Monday, 26 November 2007 01:00 | and posted in Sharing Your Faith
One of my favourite characters in the Bible is a blind dude called Alfred. Now, the biblically astute amongst you will quickly point out to me (and anyone listening) that there is in fact no dude in the Bible called Alfred, blind or otherwise. And in fact, you would be right. Blatantly, Alfred is not the blind dude's real name. I made it up. John doesn't give the poor fella a name, so I decided to call him Alfred.*
Monday, 05 November 2007 01:00 | and posted in Sharing Your Faith
"Christians are so intolerant. A bunch of bible bashing, narrow-minded, arrogant, homophobic, party-pooping, judgemental God-botherers."
Are we? Are you?
Monday, 22 October 2007 01:00 | and posted in Sharing Your Faith
The Pharisees were always out to trick Jesus, to catch Him out, to show him up for the law breaker that they believed He was. When they brought the woman to Jesus who they claimed to have been caught in adultery, they weren't really concerned with her, or her being dealt with, they really wanted to show Jesus up for not keeping the law.* As usual Jesus keeps his head, takes his time, and turns the whole situation round so that they actually realise that they are the law breakers, they all leave, one by one, leaving the stones that would have killed the woman behind them in the dust.
Monday, 15 October 2007 01:00 | and posted in Sharing Your Faith
I had a phonecall the other day. I was in the middle of doing something when the phone rang and a voice said, "May I speak to Mrs Esther Bailey?" Instantly I was on the defensive - this was no personal call, the caller obviously wanted something from me.
"How are you today, Mrs Bailey? We are doing a survey about .. (I wasn't really listening). Is it convenient for you to answer a few questions?"
Monday, 15 October 2007 01:00 | and posted in Sharing Your Faith
Ask most people how they became Christians and they'll say it had something to do with the Christians they met. They liked what they saw and wanted to know more.
It's what the Bible teaches us to expect. Peter tells wives whose husbands are not Christians that their husbands will be won over 'without words...when they see the purity and reverence of your lives' (1 Peter 3:1-2). Don't annoy them by putting hymns on their MP3 player or making Bible verses suddenly appear on their laptops. Let your life tell the story.
