Practical Theology (166)
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  1. Our relief when we're troubled can't be found at the end of all our preparations and celebrations, no matter how pious our intent.
  2. "What do you mean, 'Confess that I don't believe in God?' I'm a Christian. Of course I believe in God!"
  3. So, what do we do when someone doesn't believe God's promise of forgiveness, life, and eternal salvation is for him?
  4. Take away the water, words, bread and wine. Can you be a Christian without water, words, bread and wine?
  5. Can God forgive friends who abandoned Him in His hour of greatest need?
  6. “As if” Christians aren’t allowed to reflect; that they’re not kind, generous, brave, or loyal. They’re not living up to the example of biblical saints.
  7. “Why now,” I said to no one, or to myself, or to God. Whoever. I was drunk, strung out, mostly dead, hopeless in the darkness. I knew I’d done it all to myself. I didn’t need God to drive the point home.
  8. Believe in God, belong to a church, and behave yourself isn’t the Gospel.
  9. I’m still piecing together fragments. I’ve spent my life collecting scraps of personal stories that will explain my father to me.
  10. But I remember that that’s how it ended. Words. Wine. Blood. A sudden halt to the conversation.