Being Transformed
"May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance." ~2 Thessalonians 3:5 I had a conversation a few weeks ago with somebody about faith. He says he's an atheist, and questions anybody that would allow themselves to be "limited" by the "rules" of being a Christian. He wanted to have a conversation he said, but what he really wanted to do was give a lecture about how silly I was to spend so much time studying in seminary, and how dumb I was to waste my retirement years going into Christian ministry instead of kicking back and enjoying my well deserved reward. So I listened to him. I interjected where I could, but he didn't hear me. I left feeling sorry for him. He is bitterly unhappy. He is unfulfilled. He has a secular view of the world and is unwilling to even acknowledge there may be a spiritual side of our nature that if he were to open up mind and his heart could show him there is a deep...