When Questions aren’t asked

This past Saturday, at halftime of the Liberty Bowl (Go Hogs…especially Tejada), we launched our INWARD series: Loving God with our mind. For 6 weeks we will discuss on Saturday nights some of the biggest faith questions that plague us, keep us awake at night, and cause general blank stares when asked. We will also blog on this very site whatever you have specific questions about. On Saturday, right between your 2nd and 3rd piece of pizza, we asked you to text in your biggest questions regarding the Christian faith. To our amazement, although 100+ people were in the room, we only received 6 texts. After much conversation, we as a Mosaic students staff team decided this would be the perfect blog to start us off with. The lack of questions led us to a few potential reasons:
1) People didn’t know what to ask
2) People are afraid to ask
3) People could care less
4) People are more interested in their pizza then the topic at hand
5) People don’t text

Considering that the vast majority present were students, we are going to assume that it’s not number 5, hope that its not number 4 (but know that’s likely for us as well), and therefore move directly to 1-2-3. If your silence reflected one of these, we want to both challenge and encourage you in the weeks to come. When Jesus promises the woman at the well that one day, worshipers will come to Him in spirit and truth, we take that to mean in the heart, soul AND the mind (John 4:7-26). Knowing God is as much comprehending Him with clarity (at least attempting too) as it is experiencing him with emotions.

For some of you, this will mean wrestling with these questions for the first time and actually teaching you the issues, thus guiding you in the questions you’ll have. For some of you, these 6 weeks will relieve you that you don’t need to be afraid to ask. It doesn’t mean you are foolish to have questions, but instead will show we are becoming more like Christ even in our pursuit of knowledge. And for those of you who don’t care, hopefully this will act as the spark to turn you off of yourself and onto the vast ocean of wisdom, spirituality, and LIFE that will never be had outside of Jesus Christ.

We hope you respond the same way the well-woman must have to Jesus’ worship remark. “Wow…true worship happens in spirit and truth. I wonder how I can do both”.

~Deep thoughts by a shallow guy~
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