It is impossible to experience an authentic, deep relationship with someone if everything you know about them is secondhand information. We instinctively know this is true. Genuine friendships are forged by spending time together and discovering one another’s hearts, dreams, and character. This intentional, personal connection is the very foundation of all authentic relationships.
Consider a blind date: someone may introduce you, but if you desire a meaningful relationship, you must spend personal, quality time getting to know each other. Through shared experiences, conversations, and memorable moments, genuine love naturally blossoms.
Yet, how often do we neglect this essential truth when it comes to God? Many of us rely on others to mediate our relationship with Him—depending on secondhand experiences, stories, and teachings, without cultivating our own personal encounters. As a result, we miss out on genuinely knowing Him, and our love remains shallow.
But there is a better way! Imagine a relationship with God that is vibrant, personal, and profoundly transformative—a connection where you truly know Him for yourself and experience His presence every day. This is what we were all looking for when we first turned to Him!
Join me this week as we embark on an exciting journey of discovering and nurturing an authentic, personal relationship with God—one that will ignite your heart, renew your faith, and transform your life.
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God has provided believers with His baseline truth. Everything else we read in Scripture can be compared to the baseline truth to provide us with the certainty of whether or not we are correctly interpreting what we read. This baseline of truth forms a foundation. The foundation supports and sustains all that is built on it!
The writer of the Book of Hebrews identified a foundation for New Covenant Faith. These seven doctrines provide the basis for faith that is unshakable and immovable. They also provide a spiritual GPS that ensures we will never “run off the rails” with strange doctrine. Furthermore, it provides a path to ensure that we grow to be spiritually mature believers who can not only stand strong for ourselves but can also become teachers and leaders who guard and guide the flock of God! These seven doctrines comprise a shield of truth that will guard our hearts and minds against spiritual deception.
As you read the following pages, I would encourage you to use the seven doctrines to evaluate your current beliefs about God. Any place you find a discrepancy between the foundations of the faith and your current beliefs, make the proper adjustments.
