Basic Christianity Series #2: Faith

FaithChristian faith begins with the sense that there is another dimension in your existence, an awareness in your beliefs that there is a force beyond human reasoning.The Biblical definition of faith is very simple: Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see (Hebrews 11:1). Looking more closely at that definition, “what we hope for” suggests that one of the foundation stones of real faith must begin with hope. Hope would suggest a deeper sense of unhappiness in our core—a restlessness, a discontent. Faith begins with the uneasy search and hope for something better. Faith’s most stubborn enemy is a contented completeness, a fundamental feeling of self-satisfaction.In this definition of faith you also see that it is the “assurance about things we cannot see.” Not only is there a heart desire for something with deeper satisfaction, but there is an awareness, a hope, of something beyond your understanding, and in th