Circle The Wagons

You know, one of the things that is almost necessary when you turn your life over to Christ is to consciously and deliberately surround yourself with other people of faith. Recently, I’ve talked to friends who are experiencing their transformations and exploding in their knowledge and thirst for the Word. It’s refreshing for me as I remember my own experience. For those of you who might now know, I was so hungry spiritually in the beginning that I thought I was headed to seminary.  I needed that kind of instruction, or so I thought. When I told a minister friend of mine, he, without discouraging my enthusiasm, made a valid point. One of my downfalls was believing that intellectual pursuit solved most of my confusion on almost everything. I could intellectually rationalize anything. Boy, was I wrong. That kind of thinking kept me out of church; my friend reminded me of that. He told me many people can quote scripture backward and forward but have no faith. He thought I would be better served if I surrounded myself with people as hungry as I was for the Word. He surmised that fortifying one’s emerging faith was much more important at...