Share your UN-FAITH

It takes courage to admit that you haven't always had it together. When you share your faith with friends and strangers, don't leave out your Un-Faith. Don't hide the BEFORE of your "Before and After" story. People need to see the transformation. People need to know that your struggles without God in your life were just like theirs. Share your Un-Faith and why you left it behind utterly and completely for a life following Jesus Christ.

Tell them how selfish you were. How your most precious possession was your pride. How you kept working hard for worldly rewards like money and still felt empty. How your marriage was barely making it because you were both self-seeking above all else. How relationships with family and friends endured lies and hurtful, selfish acts and mistrust. How you were depressed and anxious about the future; how nothing felt real. How you felt ALONE.

People will recognize this, unfortunately. Something about it will be tragically familiar.

THEN, tell them how you couldn't live this life of Un-Faith anymore! Tell them how you gave your life to Christ and you seek to follow Him above all else. How your emptiness has been filled with a joy so un-superficial that you feel it in the deepest corners of your soul. How your most evil, vile and selfish acts of the past have been forgiven and washed clean. How your spirit is renewed each day in prayer with your Perfect Father. How you have found purpose in servanthood to others and contentment in His Perfect Love.


THEN tell them how they can have this life, too; Eternal Life by beginning a relationship with Jesus, by being baptized and joining the Body of people who have found unmatched peace in the same forgiveness, the same love.

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6


There is only ONE WAY.

It's a tough message for some and believing it means we can't always be tolerant, we can't COEXIST, we can't offer up political correctness and politeness as an excuse for not sharing our stories.

There is no greater story, no greater love, nothing more.

No one can deny the ultimate Beauty and Truth of this story, of the story of Jesus:
- God is our Creator, He loves us, He seeks relationship with us
- Jesus is His son, sent to earth to experience life, temptation, struggle and pain - He became one of us
- Jesus's sacrifice through his death frees us from our ugly, selfish sins
- The first two commandments asked of us are 1) to Love God and 2) to Love others
- If we're truly following those two commandments, nothing will be able to stop us from following this one:
"Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Matthew 28:19-20

Read more: Matthew 10:32-33; I Timothy 6:10-12; Ephesians 2:1-10; Galatians 6:2I; Corinthians 16:13-14; Acts 2:38; Romans 6:1-4