Living Faith – Embrace the Adventure of Faith (as a True Disciple of Jesus)
Living Faith is an Adventure that you don’t want to miss out on!
What Does It Mean Have a Truly Living Faith?
If Catholics truly lived as disciples of Jesus, how would life be different?
1. Evangelism wouldn’t be a problem. Our excitement about the faith would be contagious!
2. Catholics would be highly motivated to learn their faith. Learning their faith would mean growing in intimacy with the God they love and being better equipped to participate in Jesus’ mission to bring other people into the love of God, and living faith more deeply.
3. Catholics would change the world! They would engage the world in loving service, employing the gifts that God gave them to share God’s love and truth.
4. The world of modernism wouldn’t stand a chance! Every Catholic would become a champion of the truth. The dominant philosophy of modernism – that nobody can really know truth for sure – would suddenly become a minority idea defending itself against the reason and lived experience of disciples of Christ.
5. The world would be a happier place! Saint Paul describes the fruit of the spirit as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. This is the recipe for a truly fulfilling life.
6. There would be more true individuals in the world. To live as a disciple of Jesus – to fully maximize your gifts and truly use them – is the only way to fully become the person that God created you to be.
In short, if we truly lived as disciples of Jesus, we would be on our way to becoming holy – becoming saints. And saints are never bored. Your life could be an adventure.
Your Challenge
So how does your life compare to the description above? If you’re anything like me, you laughed out loud at that question. Your challenge is to choose one of the areas above and thing about something you can do to improve in that area. Then continue on this tutorial to add to your list of things to improve on. By the end of the tutorial you should be able to put together a plan to help you begin to live the adventure of faith!
Your Next Action Steps
The Keys to Spiritual Growth program is all about what it means to live as a disciple of Jesus. Once we have deepened our relationship with God, the Holy Spirit will call us outward. We will exit our inner abbey and engage the world with the Gospel. The course “Living the Adventure of Faith” offers you practical strategies for clarifying and living more intensely your office, your vocation, and your mission. You can get started really easily with the free “Keys to Spiritual Growth” course. This course will introduce you to all five of the most important areas of spirituality that we need to nurture if we want to deepen our relationship with God and have a living faith.