A good question
I love a good question. I can live on a good question for days – if not weeks. A good question is a key that can unlock truths about God, about life, about our relationships, about who and how we are.
I love a good question. I can live on a good question for days – if not weeks. A good question is a key that can unlock truths about God, about life, about our relationships, about who and how we are.
This is written by a Navigator who, because of their ministry context, prefers to remain anonymous for now.
As I reflect on my life so far, I ask myself, ‘If my life had been perfect, would I have found Jesus?’
Several black and white photos sit on my bookshelf. They take me back 50 years to a time when Dad and I were active in New Zealand politics. One is of election night 1972. Dad is sitting alongside the newly elected Prime Minister. Another is of Audrey and I (a very young-looking couple) chatting with the Prime Minister and his wife at our wedding.
Before anyone got alongside me and discipled me, I was a struggling Christian. I gave my life to Jesus when I was 11 but I didn’t really know what it looked like to live my life for him each day and I had no idea how to engage with the Bible. I attended church, youth group and summer camps that all pointed me to Jesus and got me hyped up, but I had no clue how to sustain that feeling or apply it to my daily life
The lone figure zigzags across the desert with a dance-like gait, the high suns burning down on him, as from the top of a nearby rock formation a crowd look on. A few of the onlookers are rooting for the plucky outsider, who has lived among them and taken on their ways, but most are content whether they watch him succeed or get turned into a snack for a giant, carnivorous desert worm.
Who doesn’t love going to the cinema, grabbing popcorn and being transported to a different place or time to experience a great story? The best films have the power to stir our imaginations and emotions, and resonate with us long after the credits have rolled.