Some final thoughts on my study on “personal walk (in community)” at my small group this week:
I believe that your personal walk is (in) Faith. Without
faith, we wouldn’t be who we are right now: going to church, leading various
ministries, serving others, etc. It’s when your faith in God grows, you become
closer to Him.
Faith begins with knowledge; you can’t believe what you
don’t know. There must be some propositional knowledge of the object to whom
your faith focuses. Then you must assent that the knowledge is true. It’s one
thing to have knowledge; it is something else to believe it. I know a lot of
things that I don’t believe. (I stole this part from some bible study website I googled)
For me, whenever I struggle with other people, or see others
struggling, my faith takes a hit. My faith in people or my faith in God is
rattled when I see injustice, hypocrisy, or even myself and how weak and sinful
we all are. While I continue to believe in the God that is our Lord and Master,
it can be difficult to have strong faith in such situations.
Thus, I believe it is important that a Christian community
needs to not only share the Godly teachings and values, but live them on a
daily basis. When there’s someone who seems to be struggling spiritually, or
living not-so-Godly, we have a communal responsibility to them.
