Many times I see the same teaching and wisdom passed on. Two important characteristics of successful (not necessarily rich, that’s another thing) people are curiosity and imagination.
And I wonder…
What does it mean when it says in the Bible he worshipped…?
What does it mean when God says I will be with you?
Why does the Apostle Paul throw in so many weird, seemingly out of context, sentences?
Why did Jesus say so many things to his followers assuming they knew what he was saying when they hadn’t a clue?
Or, why did those followers write all that down making themselves look foolish?
How is it that these disparate and scattered Christian fellowships survived without a single written comprehensive document (Bible) and creed for 300 years? Why do we fight over that now?
What did it feel like to be part of the crowd on that hillside sloping down to the Lake when Jesus preached his Sermon?
What was it like walking with Jesus and his many companions as we journeyed through Galilee and into Judah? Did we sing songs? Did people jostle for position close enough to Jesus to hear him? How many conversations happened along the way? Relationships formed?
Some people live within the belief passed on to them when they were eight years old? Some of us wonder—what if? What happened? What was it like?
Faith Venture 
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