The biggest problem in my life has been my faith. Faith has been something that has always been weird to me. My faith journey really started when I was a freshman in high school. In middle school, my parents were always pestering me about committing my life to God. When I got to highs school, they really let me be in charge of my faith. When I was younger, my faith was based on what my parents believed. I would always say what my parents would say. As I got older, I made sure I explored my faith. This journey took three years to my senior year. Starting my senior year, I was only interested in football. Football constantly flooded my thoughts. I was not reading my Bible. Instead, I would constantly watch film for our next opponent. During …show more content…
This was a really big blow to me. I was angry with God what happened. I felt like he had taken away the most important thing in my life. However, this was a blessing in disguise. Being hurt really gave me a lot of time in my day to read the Word and spend time with God. My faith got really strong during this period of time. I would go to Physical Therapy every day. While I would wait to go, I would be either in the locker room or at home spending time in the word. I chose to get baptized in February. I was on a spiritual high for such a long time. Going into college, my faith was as strong as it has ever been.
My faith has really weakened while I have been in college. There is so much happening in the dorm that I just forget about my Bible. I will stay up until two or three in the morning rather than read my Bible. You can find me playing Xbox with my friends, rather than having a conversation about God and our faith. This has really been a hard transition for me. These past couple of months have been really hard for me. Sometimes, I will skip out on church because I stay up with my friends on Saturday night. Some Sundays I will just sleep in and bank on going
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I was thinking about getting a group of my friends together and making a bible study group. Otter Creek has something called covenant groups. Covenant groups are made up of the group or guys or girls in your grade. The covenant groups met every other Sunday night. Two or three leaders led the covenant groups. These leaders would choose a subject to talk about and discuss. We would start by fellowshipping while eating a meal. The fellowshipping usually lasted about thirty minutes. We would then start diving into scripture. The group would dissect the scripture and talk about what it meant to us personally. I really hope to get some close friends of mine together. Hopefully, we could start our own covenant group here in High Rise. I also hope to talk to one of my leaders who led covenant group. I am hoping that I can really get back to diving into the word with him. The leader I am talking about is Kell Holland. Kell has always been someone that I could talk to about anything. He is a person that really helped me during my faith walk while I was in high school. Now that I am in college, our schedules are so much different. I have not gotten the chance to see him very much. Now that the holidays are coming, I hope that I will reach out to him. I know that he will definitely want to help me and my struggles. Lastly, I know that my parents are always people I can talk to about this. My parents are people that are deeply
As ancient Rome began to fall, Christianity began rising. Around 2,000 years ago, Jesus of Nazareth was born, later to be known as the Messiah or Son of God. When people of the Roman era began to hear of such a powerful being, they began to convert to Christianity. Why did Christianity take hold on the ancient world; Christianity took hold on the ancient world because it offered immortality, equality, and it was spread like wildfire.
Life is full of frustrations and confusion. There are times that questioning the purpose of one’s life to be living at all from their belief and faith in the one they believe. Christian Adherents are faced with these issues and are misguided by the loquacious talk of philosophers and scientists that seem to argue that the existence of human beings have been derived by something else other than God. These are illustrated through various forms of media and deem to be very convincing for most. However, there are people and ideas of the Christian Religion to comply back with what is said against it. Pope John XXIII was a significant role model for the Christian Religion as he showed true belief and faith to God through his deeds. Topics in debate of Bioethical issues are in question and the practices of the Christian belief are fact to the individual of the means of questioning the purpose here on Earth. Regarding the letter from Paul to the Corinthians, it says “Be on guard; stand firm in faith; be men of courage, be strong.” Its significance to believers is that they can be deceived in time of desperation and at times of hardship but God tells them to stay strong in faith and in courage no matter the distress they are facing.
Christian faith and Ethos is the class I am taking this term. The professor 's name is Reverend Leroy Leach Jr. The class is about God, the creation, and how to read the Holy Bible.
The Baha’i faith is considered to be one of the newest religions that is being practiced today with about six million followers. It was founded by Siyyid ‘Ali Muhammad who proclaimed to be the “Bab” (the “Gate”) in the mid-19th century in modern day Iran. Many people might think that Islam and the Baha’i faith are similar because both religions share similar daily practices. However, they are not similar based on their concept of tawheed, their primary purpose of life, and their beliefs of the hereafter. Therefore, Baha’i’s and Muslims have more differences than they are similar.
If you’ve ever heard the saying, “fall seven times, stand up eight” it applies to this situation. We are always going to make mistakes and fail but God is always there to help us stand up again and get our lives on the right path. After each failure we begin to see the progress that we are making and we can really see a difference in our life. We need to remember “there is no place for laziness and indulgence of the body in a disciplined pursuit of holiness.” (Bridges p.111)
My Personal Statement of Faith, I believe in God the Father, The Son and Holy Spirit. I believe that God the Father is perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom, and measureless in power. God showed His love for all people by sending His Son to die for our sins so that we might have eternal life with God in heaven.
In an era of extreme conflict and violence in the world, harmony can seem to be nearly impossible to find. Christians, Muslims, and Jews battle each other day after day in wars that have lasted for generations, which can make religious differences seem impossible to overcome. However, Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Baha’i faith, reminds us that “Ye are all the leaves of one tree and the drops of one ocean” (“What Bahá'ís Believe.” Bahai.org). This quote illustrates the main principle of the Baha’i faith, unity, and harmony among all. The Baha’i faith has a fascinating and unique history, principles, and ways to show devotion; although its followers strive to promote peace, they is discriminated against in some regions of the world.
The biggest thing that I’ve been dealing with and at this time still struggle with is in finding my self-worth. Some may also call it self-confidence. I feel that I have tended to confuse God’s love for me as primarily traveling through vessels, i.e. other people in the body of Christ. I all too often can look back on my past and see the points where I felt the most apart from God and tie them in with instances where I had torn relationships with past friends in the church. Throughout this struggle though, I have continued to feel the presence of God, through the Holy Spirit, comforting me and guiding me on this spi...
Which brings me to Fowler’s Theory of Faith Development, specifically Individual-Reflective Faith which occurs in early adulthood. Growing up as a family we went to church every Sunday and sometimes even twice a week, everyone in my family was a catholic and that was expected from all of us, no questions asked. I even got baptized as a baby and did my first communion when I was about nine years old. I did not mind the expectation from my family when I was little because I loved church, especially the singing. Then came a time where both of my parents started to work on Sundays, so did my sister, and so my brother and I helped out at my parents restaurant. Ever since then we really have not made church a priority, I believe this is what effected my encounter with my mother when I was eighteen years old. I was currently taking a class called “religion in the modern world” and learned about all rituals and how different religions support different things than others, and it got to me to reflect on what religion I grew up learning about. Some things I liked and some things I was horrified by. So talking to my mother, I was telling her my opinions and what I believed in and that there is not just one way to believe or think. She was furious, I was stepping out of the norm, but it had been because of my Individual-Reflective Faith than lead me to this stage. I am very thankful I was able to reflect on my faith, I now have a stronger bond on my beliefs and now my mother totally supports me on it, so it was all for the best that I went through this
When it comes to religious beliefs, people have opinions that can be very conservative, to people who have extremist opinions. It is nearly impossible to say whose opinions are correct, but one thing that can be found in their opinions is a middle ground. From religion to religion, people tend to have some degree of similarities in their beliefs or practices. I saw something parallel to this during my interviews. I interviewed four very different people, from different generations, and different religions, yet I found similarities within many of their answers.
A community is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “A unified body of individuals.” The question is, what sets a Christian community apart? Christian community is described throughout 1 John as community of believers who have decided to live walking alongside each other, loving each other, and speaking truth into each other's lives for the sake of the Kingdom. Christian community, if it is built upon 1 John ideals, is a great gift designed and given by God to believers. This foundation of the Christian community is God’s sacrificial love that flows from the hearts of all that walk with Him.
As I sit and reflect over my life, I ask myself where have I come from, where might I currently be, and what does the future hold for me according to my faith formation. This was a time for me to weigh the progress of my formation that happened over the years and to see the influential players who made it possible. Within this essay I will use two of James Fowler’s stages of faith to evaluate my own life and be able to see that through these stages I can be able to help develop others faith as well. It is through these stages that have shaped my life into becoming the faithful person that I am today.
One week I would be with my Mom and the next week I would be with my Dad. I knew that my parents still loved my sister and I , but it definitely took a toll on the family as a whole. My Mom seemed depressed some nights. My sister and I would sleep in her bed to make her feel better.That 's when my Mom relayed on her faith to get her through this transition. Every Monday, Wednesdays, and Sundays, My sister, me , and my Mom would be at church. If we woke up late we would have bible study in her living room. She found a different church in Athens, Georgia named Timothy Baptist Church .That’s when she actually felt accepted in a church. I knew during the week my Mom had me I would be at church every other day. The weeks with my Dad were slightly different. With my Dad, he enjoyed going out, shopping, vacations, movies, and etc. He kind of spoiled my sister and I a little more. He never really told us the real reason why he wanted a divorce , he always told us he will tell us when we are older. My Dad found a different church as well.His church was near Atlanta, Georgia and it was named Berean Christian Church. So, once my dad founded a home church, I was going to church with my Dad every single Sunday. Faith played a huge part in my parents forgiveness of each other. The weeks I’m with my Dad, he cooked more. Talked to more to my sister and I more and he became a better listener.It was like he was becoming a better father. The weeks
My spiritual journey began when I started attending Holy Spirit Regional Catholic School in 2007. From the start, I questioned who God was, where he came from, and how he worked. Throughout the past four years of my life I learned to fully rely on God alone and to trust in him. Friends and church leaders mentored me to help me grow in faith, which I am unbelievably grateful for. Although my Catholic faith has had rough patches, every day it grows more and more as Christ reveals to me who he wants me to be.
Growing up I was raised in a religious household, so, of course, I’m a big believer in God and my faith. To me, God is the creator of all and I believe Judgment Day is going to come very soon.The definition of faith is the belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion. My faith and the reason for my faith goes hand in hand because it makes me know the truth and opens my eyes to this world. Also, I get clarity of why I’m in this world which is to make it a better place. But seeing the world as faith with reason or reason with faith has a few challenges and can make things a little bit difficult. Same goes for science and religion which butt heads a lot. Some may feel that the Big Bang Theory created