Having a Personal Faith

Something I’ve been challenged on recently is the idea of having a ‘personal faith’. It’s so easy to fall in to that trap of feeling like you know all there is to know about Christianity, so you must therefore have a really strong faith, right? Well, maybe. Doing a degree in youth work and theology at a Christian college often tempts me in to thinking that attending lectures, learning about the Bible, going to prayer meetings and being a Christian youth worker is enough. But I’m starting to learn that it’s not. My ministry needs to be rooted in my relationship with God; otherwise there is just no point. So, like any other relationship, a relationship with God requires sacrifice. That sounds brutal, but I mean it in the sense of sacrificing our time and effort to spend time getting to know God on a personal level. This means listening to Him and valuing what he has to say. Only then can we truly have faith, because God can do some wonderful and exciting things in our lives that we couldn’t even imagine unless we take time to invest in Him. It’s like; imagine that you had never tasted chocolate. So you read about chocolate and people tell you about how great it is. But only you know how great chocolate really is when you try it yourself. And let’s be fair, the rewards are pretty amazing! So today, I encourage you to think about how you can have a personal relationship with God, and go for it!

Charli Wood is key worker in Bilborough

She is also on the 3rd year @ MCYM