Your parents’ faith can introduce you to God. It can’t have the relationship for you.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Inherited belief can get you as far as the door and no further. Your parents can give you the language, the habits, the building and the assumptions, and all of that is a genuine gift. None of it can do the actual relating on your behalf, any more than somebody can be your friend for you. At some point the thing has to become first-hand or it stays borrowed.

Do one piece of it yourself this week without them involved. Read it on your own, pray in your own words, ask your own question. See what it is like when it is not handed to you.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What part of your faith is inherited rather than yours?

MORE IN FAITH, GRACE & PURPOSE

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