Five Signs You're Having a Mid-Faith Crisisنموونە

Doubt Creeps In
Have you had a “Mid-Faith Crisis”? What did that look like for you? For many of us, it starts with wondering what happened to our faith, why we don’t think and believe the way we used to. But the good news is that, while this is a painful crisis, it can be healthy, even necessary.
Initially the crowds that followed Jesus were excited. They lived hard lives, and here was something new. Jesus brought healing, and comfort, and the promise that God’s kingdom did not belong to the powerful but was right here among them.
But for many, the excitement wore off quickly. John writes of a time when the crowd started to dwindle, when even his disciples started to grumble, and many turned away from him.
Jesus turned to his closest twelve friends and asked, “Do you want to leave me, too?”
Notice that they don’t say “No! You’re the best! We never doubted!” In fact, we know for sure that many of them were bewildered most of the time.
But they stayed. They kept going, even when they didn’t understand.
Most of us today experience something like this. There was something in the Christian message that caught our attention, and we were excited. But it hasn’t all panned out the way we hoped or expected. Life continues to be hard, and for so many reasons we’re just not as sure as we once were.
The good news is that faith doesn’t require certainty. The twelve who stayed with Jesus were still quite confused and went on to let him down—even abandon him on his hardest night. But they kept trying, kept following, kept searching. Not perfectly, not by a long shot.
When we’ve lost so much faith that we can hardly keep going, how do we know when to throw in the towel? Jesus said that faith the size of a mustard seed could move mountains—and “a mustard seed isn’t very much."
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You’ve heard of “mid-life crisis,” but what about a “mid-faith crisis”? We often assume our spiritual life will naturally grow into maturity without a hitch, so we’re shocked to discover ourselves in a full-blown crisis of faith we didn’t ask for and don’t know how to handle. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. A mid-faith crisis is a normal—and sometimes necessary—season in our spiritual lives.
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