Non-Negotiables

What are the non-negotiables on your faith?

I believe God is the creator of everything that is.  God’s character is love – a love we cannot understand and can only begin to experience.  God is not a God who creates and abandons.  God is involved in God’s creation, every day, all the time.  That involvement does not remove the will of God’s creation, for if it did, we could not love.

 

In God’s love, God sent Jesus, his son, and himself, to us to show us who God is – the infinite nature of God’s love. Through the son we learn that forgiveness, mercy, and grace are real and are for all of us. Through the son we learn how to live, here on earth, and there, in heaven.

 

God remains with us as the Holy Spirit, and through the spirit, as an example of God’s continuing grace, we can communicate with God, and are made whole.

 

God’s body on earth is the church – the union of God’s creation, sharing God’s gifts to demonstrate God’s love to all. 

 

These beliefs are derived from the whole picture of the Bible, from my experience as a member of the Body of Christ, and from the nudging of the Holy Spirit.  I pull back from the word non-negotiable; my faith is dependent on the truth of God, and is not a full or complete reflection of God’s truth.  In that light, the truth of God’s reality is the non-negotiable, not my understanding of God.  In other words, God exists outside of my beliefs, and where my beliefs fall short (and they will), the reality of who God is is the “gold standard” of my faith.