Look at the state of America right now, with all its problems, divisions, and moral breakdown. Nobody in the first century would have laid odds on the close-minded Christian-killer named Saul of Tarsus becoming a missionary and a church planter. If you try to imagine that individual holding a Bible or talking about Jesus, the picture seems almost laughable. Picture a non-Christian friend or family member in your mind, someone you couldn’t imagine turning to the Lord in a 100 years. Faith lives in the real world, the world of activity. It is not found in flowery posts of sunsets on Instagram or Pinterest. While I encourage you to read the chapter for yourself, here are two important lessons we can learn from the heroes of the faith:įaith doesn’t live in the realm of theory. What I love about Hebrews 11 is that it tells the stories of men and women who served the Lord in their own generations and, in real ways - great and small - changed their world by faith. You put your faith in servers and chefs, doctors and pilots.”Įvery one of us puts our faith in something. What about the last time you walked into a restaurant and ordered a meal? Or how about when you went to that doctor for a diagnosis? And then there was that time you got on board a Boeing 747 and buckled yourself in. My reply to them goes something like this: Some people say things like, “I believe in facts, not fiction.

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (KJV).

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