I appreciated this post. Sometimes I don’t need an answer to my problems,or to hear a cliched christian response… I just need you to stand beside me in the faith and in the flesh.
Anonymous asked:
For Christians struggling with their faith, other Christians often try to offer the best advice they can, but how do you feel about Christians who keep telling those who are struggling to just “read their Bible?” In my “struggling” years when I was becoming serious with my relationship with Christ, I have often come across that advice countless times, and every time, I have always felt that there was a problem with that advice. Not that it was “wrong” but it almost never felt “right.”
Dear friend: any time someone tells you, “Just read your Bible,” they’re saying it because —
1) They’re not really sure what else to say, or
2) They’re not willing to invest their time to hear you out.
To be fair, I can completely understand when someone falls back on easy advice: because giving advice is hard and it sounds right to throw…
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