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Increase Our Faith: The Gift Already Within You! A Sermon At Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Orlando, FL.
Have you ever cried out, Lord, Increase my faith? WHAT AM I ASKING FOR? Faith is confidence grounded in reality, not a wild, desperate leap.
Jesus agrees we need faith. However, he does not support our assumption that a greater quantity of faith will help us. The disciples do not need more faith. They need to be reminded about what faith is and assured they have all they need to do what Jesus has enjoined them to do. It only takes the size of a mustard seed.
Maybe the mistake the disciples make isn’t so much in asking for more faith, but in thinking they don’t have enough, in thinking God’s gift to them was somehow insufficient.
Jesus is saying to them and to us: Faith. It’s Already Within You. Engage it!
In this sermon I focus on two ways our faith can be engaged:
1. God Confidence and 2. Personal Agency.
In short, the biblical meaning of faith is confidence in God, or as we say, “God-confidence.” Basic to everything here is the idea that Christian belief is really about knowing who and what to trust. In Christ, what you can rely on are his person, his life, death and Resurrection, and the available resources of God and God’s Kingdom.
With deepest gratitude to Fr. David Bumstead, Rector of Emmanuel.
With you on the Journey, my dear friends,
Rob+
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Have you ever cried out, Lord, Increase my faith? WHAT AM I ASKING FOR? Faith is confidence grounded in reality, not a wild, desperate leap.
Jesus agrees we need faith. However, he does not support our assumption that a greater quantity of faith will help us. The disciples do not need more faith. They need to be reminded about what faith is and assured they have all they need to do what Jesus has enjoined them to do. It only takes the size of a mustard seed.
Maybe the mistake the disciples make isn’t so much in asking for more faith, but in thinking they don’t have enough, in thinking God’s gift to them was somehow insufficient.
Jesus is saying to them and to us: Faith. It’s Already Within You. Engage it!
In this sermon I focus on two ways our faith can be engaged:
1. God Confidence and 2. Personal Agency.
In short, the biblical meaning of faith is confidence in God, or as we say, “God-confidence.” Basic to everything here is the idea that Christian belief is really about knowing who and what to trust. In Christ, what you can rely on are his person, his life, death and Resurrection, and the available resources of God and God’s Kingdom.
With deepest gratitude to Fr. David Bumstead, Rector of Emmanuel.
With you on the Journey, my dear friends,
Rob+