Do you see the practice of your faith as a journey or a destination? Everyone uses the terminology of journey, but does the life you lead reflect this concept more than destination? You accepted certain premises when you first believed. Have you added to these? Have you added things and later reconsidered and let them go? Revelation is the process of revealing. Are you receiving revelation on a regular basis? This is living water and the bread of life that you need for nourishment even as you need food to sustain your body, because man does not live by bread alone.

Do you like to go on adventures? Do you like to travel with a schedule of destinations and activities determined in advance? Do you think you can do both or is there an unavoidable conflict between these approaches? This is a valid question even if you don’t travel, for your life is subject to influences beyond your control. Would you like to know every step going forward? But this is not given to you and you could not bear it. Can you still have peace and contentment? Do you realize that you live a charmed life in an enchanted world?

What is the essence of your faith? What are the distinctive features that you use to describe it to others? Do you emphasize the supernatural aspects of your faith? For you live in an era dominated by rationalism in which there is no respect for the supernatural. As a result believers are embarrassed by the supernatural aspects of their faith and diminish them. But what does that leave you with? Can you refute or even contend with rationalism on a purely rational basis? Can you articulate the supernatural distinctives of your faith and explain why they are essential to it?

Do you draw distinctions between yourself or your group and others to claim that your gender, nationality, profession, denomination, political candidate, or ideology are superior to others? In mathematics if two numbers are not equal then one is greater than the other. But this principle does not hold in other areas where there can be differences without superiority or inferiority. Look for my redemptive purpose outside of your own group and you will find it. What is the essence of your identity?