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Faith is not by force

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God and faith can handle honest questions.

We had the topic firm foundation.
2025.08.17 Building a Firm Foundation in Christ - Series Introduction

Heute - wieder mal ein ganz neues format.

We have failed you.

Besonders wir, gehen zur Kirche weil…

  1. wir in Glauben aufgewachsen sind
  2. unsere Eltern uns zur Kirche, mehr oder weniger, zwingen, ohne aufzuklären

How would your parents react, if you’d tell them you do not believe?

Faith is not by force.

Ich denk Eigenüberzeugung ist besser, standhafter und langlebiger als familiärer Druck oder Zwang

Have we been learning faith backwards?

When you were a kid, your parents told you Santa was real. You believed it because they said so. Then one day you figured out it wasn’t true.

Isn't that kind of how we learned about faith too?
We were told “Jesus loves you,” “God has a plan,” “pray and He’ll answer” - but nobody really explained why we should believe any of it.
No evidence, no reasoning, just “because the Bible says so” or “because that’s what we believe in this family.”

Maybe we should have been teaching you how to think about belief, how to wrestle with questions, how to find your own reasons.

What are your reasons

What questions about faith do you actually have that you have been afraid to ask?
https://strawpoll.com/6QnMQoNr7ne

Why our faith is not as strong is it could be

  • Faith being taught and expected to be accepted, like we did Santa.
  • No Apologetics1 taught, ever
    • Not given, or ever encouraged to come up with, arguments. So, when confronted, by non christians or by oneself, via life events, you have nothing to hold on to. (Wie vorhin gesagt - Santa Clause Niveau)
    • No mention of Jesus’ historical existence, which we do have
    • No mention of deaths of the disciples, as martyrs, which we do know about
    • Questionable and difficult to follow Testimonies

Doubt is Normal (also see 2025.09.07 From Inherited Faith to Personal Conviction)

  • Jacob wrestling with God - Genesis 32:22-32
  • Thomas’s doubts - John 20:24-29
  • Job questioning God’s justice - entire book of Job
  • Even Jesus asking “Why have you forsaken me?” - Matthew 27:46

homework

Würde empfehlen, die Argumente dafür als auch dagegen anzuschauen. Würde aber auch nicht vergessen, dass Glaube persönlich ist und vielleicht nicht immer komplett erklärbar ist. Deswegen auch “Glaube”.

hier paar yt playlists als Inspiration. Guckt auch gerne noch andere Videos.
1 bis 4 und 7 wĂĽrde ich empfehlen, es kann, aber muss sich nicht jedes videos angeguckt werden
(würd mir alles mit der ruhe anschauen. vielleicht auch miteinander austauschen. nächster service ist sowieso erst in zwei Wochen)

  1. history
  2. starter kit (for finding some other ppl to search for)
  3. Arguments against
  4. Arguments for
  5. testimonies
  6. Redeemed Zommer (shoutout to caleb)
  7. allgemein
  8. Christ and Islam (really not relevant tho)

Zu verschiedenen Themen gibt es verschiedene Antworten, deshalb auch so viele verschiedene Denominations. Nur so als Side Info.

Vielleicht auch hilfreich

  1. All Christian denominations explained in 12 minutes - YouTube
  2. https://www.gotquestions.org/
  3. Themen von der letzen Serie firm-foundation

Wie gesagt:

Ich denk Eigenüberzeugung ist besser, standhafter und langlebiger als familiärer Druck oder Zwang

Link to original

“7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Matthew 7:7-8 NIV

Footnotes

  1. “a branch of theology devoted to the defense of the divine origin and authority of Christianity” - source ↩

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