Hey friends! Wow, seriously the weeks fly by and I
cant believe its already almost Friday! This week has been incredible. We had
the privilege to hear Seth Higgins, our Men’s Director here at Link, teach us
about the historical accuracy of the Bible this past week. There’s no way I
would be able to talk about all of the information that he gave us, but I would
love to talk to anyone individually about all that we learned from a historical
view on the Bible and Jesus himself. All of the facts aside though, what really
stood out to me was something that Seth said: “You
as a Christian can no longer claim ignorance. There are too many resources,
smarter people than you, that hold to Biblical understanding to the Christian
faith for you to not challenge or make an effort to know what you believe and
why you believe it, is lazy. In a world in which we live in, your faith will be
rocked and it will be shaken unless you strive to figure these things out.”
This statement kind of rocked my world. For years I have kind of just gone
along with everything I have been told, and if it didn’t make sense I would say
“well I’ll just have faith and the rest will work itself out”. For a long time
I didn’t see the flaw in this thinking, up until recently when I’ve been really
digging in to my faith and seeing why I believe what I believe. We as
Christians live in a world that wants us to fall down, wants to shake our faith
and make us sin and give into the temptations that everyone else is giving in
to, and we need to equip ourselves with information to defend our faith and
lead others to Christ. I challenge everyone to no longer just accept what you
are told, whether that be on a college campus in class, online, or even in a
church. Challenge what you have heard and are being taught, Jesus died in order
that we may live and live to the fullest- live to the fullest for his glory. I
have a ton of facts and historical information about the Bible and Christianity
in general and if anyone would like my notes regarding that, or just to talk
with me about it, I would love to walk through it with y’all! Love y’all,
thanks for reading :)
