The Growth of Doubt

This week I am beginning a new teaching series on Faith and Doubt. At first I was all excited because I wanted to give people a safe place to come and wrestle with doubts that I think all people have. (Which that assumption maybe wrong.) And by wrestling with our doubts, we will hopefully grow in our faith.

Then I thought about child-like faith, simply believing. God calls us to have childlike faith. But as a child grows a child asks questions, and wonders, and doubts, and then believes again?

As I child I thought my dad, all 5'1" of him, was the biggest strongest man alive. Well by the time I was in 6th grade I was as tall as my dad. Somewhere in high school I remember finally being able to beat him at arm wrestling. Then I remember going to work with my dad and thinking that this is what he has done all his life for me. And now some 24 years since that day, well, I again realize that my dad really is the biggest strongest man alive.

Maybe that is how faith, how a relationship really grows.