What's Wrong With Faith?
Last post I shared a story from Will North's book, Water, Stone and Heart . The story was a sermon about Peter walking on water. I told you I had a problem with the Vicar's sermon and I asked you to tell me what my problem was. Kind of like Nebuchadnezzar asking Daniel to interpret his dream, I guess. Not really fair. But Jean Pedersen picked up on my question and gave me the response I was looking for. I suspect others of you would have come up with the same thought, but Jean stated it in a nutshell. She wrote: "It's not faith in faith. It's faith in Jesus." In all fairness, I thought the sermon was a pretty good one, as far as it goes. It communicates truth in an entertaining and effective way. But at the end, in the vicar's application of the truth, her message strays a bit, and that straying has the potential to lead us off a cliff into thin air (or into cold water, depending on which of her great analogies you follow.)