An encouragement at the start. We don't confess our allegiance to a theological tribe, we confess our allegiance to a person: Jesus. And we're not expected to nail everything down and call it "certainty", we're called to follow. Faith is trusting that as we do, Jesus will bring us into the knowledge and understanding we need. + + + "But it the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower. It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust ... "... There is no possibility of the kind of indubitable certainty that Descartes claimed and that has been the criterion (spoken or assumed) for reliable knowledge in modern society. There is no insurance against risk. We are invited to make a personal commitment to a personal Lord and to entrust our lives to his service. We are promised that as we so commit ourselves we shall be led step-by-step into a fuller understanding of the truth ... "... I do not possess the truth, so that I do not need to be open to new truth; rather, I am confident that the one in whom I have placed my trust, the one to whom I am committed, is able to bring me to the full grasp of what I now only partly understand." - Lesslie Newbigin, 'Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship'

  1. Hi! How can I become a member?

  2. Done. maybe write something for people about the difference between "follower" and "member"? I'm not sure I know enough to be helpful.