How do you help people find their faith?

The other day I did the funeral for Miss Elizabeth Rhodes (aka Betty).  Her nephew, Nick, is a film director who lives in Austin.  He had a great voice when reading scripture and as the family walked to the grave site, I found myself wanting to ask Nick where he learned to read so well.  I discovered he was an actor and now a director and his mother is a Juilliard trained opera singer and she taught him the importance of breathing.

As we walked along he asked me a question, since we were sharing professional opinions on a subject matter.  He asked, "How do you help people find their faith?"

I asked him why he asked that question.

He replied that many of his friends are okay with religion as a whole but are agnostic of in his term "faith-less", that he wanted to know how or if he could help his friends (who want to believe there is More).

I have an answer to this question which I gave to him, but I wanted to know if any of you who read this might be willing to supply a response?

How do you help people find their faith?
Jason Valendy

Husband, father of two boys, pastor in the United Methodist Church, and guy who is interested in the desert mothers and fathers. The idea of Orthocardia is the pursuit of having a “right heart” over the pursuit of having a “right belief” (orthodoxy) or a “right action” (orthopraxy).

www.jasonvalendy.net
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