This is our very first blog post for Faith Basics, and we’re so excited to begin this journey with you! Thank you for taking the time to engage with deeper reflections on the Christian faith and to grow in your understanding of the foundational truths found in our course book.
If you haven’t yet started the Faith Basics course book, you can learn more about it HERE.
How Faith Basics Began
When I first began serving as a Pastor of Discipleship and Small Groups, my goal was to help people not only hear God’s Word but live it. I wanted to see believers move from being hearers to adherers—people whose lives, thoughts, and even cultural perspectives are shaped by the truth of Scripture.
I often asked myself:
How does God’s Word truly become the light and lamp that guides my life?
But over time, I noticed something surprising. Whether people had been part of the church for 30 years or had just come to faith, many were asking the same foundational questions. Somewhere along the way, we had missed equipping believers with the core truths of our faith in Jesus.
That realization led to the creation of Faith Basics—a resource built around the essential questions I was being asked:
- How is the Bible organized, and why?
- How should I study the Bible?
- What does it mean to have faith?
- How can Jesus be both God and man?
- What is my role in Christ’s global Church?
- Who is the Holy Spirit, and what is His role as God?
- What is the local church, and what’s my role?
These are both profound and practical questions—ones that strengthen our faith when we seek their answers in God’s Word. But before we can build on that foundation, we must first understand and accept the Bible as God’s absolute truth and final authority.
When we approach Scripture from that posture of humility and trust, we begin to grow—not just in knowledge, but in transformation. That’s what Faith Basics is all about: learning to apply all of God’s Word to all of our lives.
Here’s how Pastor John Mark Comer describes a life focused on God vs. one that is not.
“Because what you give your attention to is the person you become. Put another way: the mind is the portal to the soul, and what you fill your mind with will shape the trajectory of your character. In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to. That bodes well for those apprentices of Jesus who give the bulk of their attention to him and to all that is good, beautiful, and true in his world. But not for those who give their attention to the 24-7 news cycle of outrage and anxiety and emotion-charged drama or the nonstop feed of celebrity gossip, titillation, and cultural drivel. (As if we “give” it in the first place; much of it is stolen by a clever algorithm out to monetize our precious attention.) But again: we become what we give our attention to, for better or worse.”
― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world
So, come with me on this journey. In our blog posts, we will aim to explore an aspect of a chapter a bit more. Let’s dive deeper into God’s Word and discover how marvelous His ways are for us.
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