What is faith?

Faith in the broadest sense is our way of understanding God and God's action in human life. Just as our understanding of ourselves, our society and our world changes over time, so too does our understanding of God's presence and activity in human life. Faith does not grow in a vacuum but sprouts from the seedbed of our life experience.

It can be shaped by all kinds of personal experience: of parental love and correction, of teaching received in school or church, of answered and unanswered prayers, of unanticipated joys or heart-wrenching failures, of discussions and disagreements with friends or colleagues.
The experience, more than any other, that often signals a shift or change in faith is the experience of conflict or confusion.

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