“4 Conditions for a Lasting, Vibrant Faith”

You’ve seen it way too often: someone makes a faith commitment and it doesn’t last. 

That doesn’t usually surprise us.

What does surprise us is the guy who walks away from Christ after decades of following him.

Or the gal who grew up taking in all the best the church and her family had to offer but left it all when she started living on her own. 

In this week’s text, Jesus explains the conditions necessary for a lasting faith (i.e., a genuine, saving faith)—a faith that’s lasting and vibrant. 

Parents, this will be an important one for your teens to hear. 

Actually, it will be an important one for all of us to hear.

Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash (modified)

This is Us

We are the church, whether we are gathered or scattered--each one of us, a part of the body of Christ, wherever we go, whatever we do.

So, where can you find us, and what are we doing?  

Jared Doran has grown up at Five Oaks. He's in high school now. You've seen him working tech during weekend services. Lights are his specialty. He works tech at East Ridge, too. And he's even doing some research for Pastor Tom on some of our future tech challenges. Here he is (above) during VBS, and you can see the "light show" on the walls and stage. We don't go for that kind of look on the weekends on purpose, but he gets to go all out for VBS and the Wednesday Student Ministries meeting.