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Author: Scott
~ 11/05/09
Addressing the context of a life is an appeal to the heart.
There is an emotional connection that occurs in listening and connecting into another’s story… in coming alongside and walking with another. While that whole “You complete me” line from Jerry Maguire is romantically overdone; it is actually the reality of any relationship. We are all each separate and distinct hints leading towards a fuller understanding of the Creator. When we get with one or more, together, heart-to-heart, we works towards completing each other.
A living faith is a searching faith—it “seeks understanding.” Our hearts seek completion so we question, probe, and search for meaning… of life, vocations, and God’s connection to us. A searching faith leads to deepening conversion. Along the way, it may even experience doubt. Yet the essence of this quality of adult faith is not doubt, but search—a trusting, hopeful, persistent “seeking” or “hunger” for a deeper appropriation of the Gospel and its power to guide, transform, and fulfill our lives.
Faith Formation is a matter of the heart.
[...] we find the disciples heartbroken and Jesus addresses the CONTEXT of their lives, appealing to the heart of the disciples, addressing the affective dimension and the living side of their maturing [...]
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