Have you met Jesus? Or did you show up and sing songs?

If you follow me on Twitter you will have seen a rather long conversation between me and a very challenging atheist. That is not uncommon for me as I am fascinated by atheist, I can understand the rejection of Jesus or any religion, but to think that no one created all that is bothers me logically. That being said God used the conversation to reveal to me a few things. I will share them now:

1-     He stated he was a Christian for a while (I am not questioning or discounting his personal experience), I think we do a poor job as the church as a whole of defining Christian. Showing up for a while and singing songs and reading stories does not make one a Christian. Jesus does, and with him comes change. New creation as Paul says.

2-     God is an experienced accepted fact. This gentleman wanted facts to support God. I began to think about that. What do we know about the world, universe, and so on…. We know what someone with a better understanding has told us is true. I have never seen an atom, but we except it is there. So if we can accept this based on the experience of someone else, then it should come as no suppose that God is proven through a relationship with Jesus. Jesus testifies to the facts of the Father that I cannot understand but accept as true.

3-     The devil attacks statements of faith. This whole conversation started when I made the statement that my God is big. That statement was met with someone to cast doubt and attempt to make me believe I was small because God was small. The thing I learned in this is that the attempt is made, but if you stay in the presence of God for the duration of the attack all you feel is peace in the truth of faith.  

God is a Big God!!