~Cup of Coffee~

What are you going to be when you grow up?
Smiles come across our face as children responding to this question “a fireman, a princess, a doctor, an airplane, or an architect."This answer continually change and develop as you get older. In high school suddenly the questions is serious – What do you want to do? (and it sounds like for the rest of your life!) You finally decide on something so you don’ t feel foolish anymore, not having all the answers. Or you continue to change majors as you grow in what you believe and think. Then you are graduating and start to panic about the ‘real world’. Is this really what you want to do with your life? Is this who you are?
Is this the way it works in the church as well? If you pick a church, or a denomination are you trapped in this view of the image of God forever? I don’t think it should be that way. We are all continuing to develop and grow in so many areas of our lives and the way we think about God should be the same way. Recently I started reading a book called Velvet Elvis, Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell. He says, “…to truly pursue the living God, we have to see the need for questions. (pg 28) … And this is why questions are so central to faith. A question by its very nature acknowledges that the person asking the question does not have all the answers. And because that person does not have all of the answers, they are looking outside of themselves for guidance.” (pg 30)
So I encourage you to continue to ask questions about God, stretch your faith and expand your passions in life. Find someone to share with what you believe and what you discover.

It’s the way you grow!

~Angelica