A conflict between belief and behavior can tempt us to question our faith destructively.

Faith involves risk in the sense that God may abandon us if we enter into a life of sin.

Primarily, faith involves saying yes to a list of truths and creedal statements about God and Jesus.

Faith involves a one time commitment to God/Jesus/Higher power that never changes over a lifetime.

Faith involves a team effort between God and ourselves.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make is to think that someday we will “get the faith" and never have to worry

about it again.

An inability to find god is frequently traceable to an inability to open ourselves to love.

Faith is a one- time decision, not an ongoing process.

Faith involves a risk in the sense that we are not sure where a faith response to God will lead us

The process of making the transition from a cultural to a convictional faith is usually

fully complete by the time we reach eighteen

Faith is a mystery of gift (God’s part) and freedom (our part).

Childhood faith(Cultural faith) can also be called faith by choice.

We should never question our faith, this shows a great lack of trust in God and our church or religious leaders.

The first and earliest stage of faith development that a person goes through in the stages of faith is Universalizing Faith or what some might call “enlightenment”.

This man was a antithesis

Being brought up Jewish as a child in the faith of Judaism is what type of faith

Childhood stage of faith

Adolescent stage of faith

Adult stage of faith

constructive faith questioning

destructive faith questioning

neither affirms or denies belief in God

affirms belief in an impersonal God(God as a watchmaker)

affirms belief in many gods

denies belief in God

Affirms belief in a personal God

Opposes the idea of God

Affirms the belief in one God

Three causes of darkness of faith are

In the reading from the Faith packet and the clip we saw of Star Wars, Luke shows a great deal of faith in lifting the X-Wing fighter out of the swamp. His faith in THE FORCE is stronger than Yoda's

Of the three stages of faith one of the most critical to the transition to faith by choice and the death of our faith by birth, is this stage