Sitting in the Pew
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★MOST people don’t come to church, stand in front of a pew, and wonder if that pew can hold them up. Most people don’t study the pew, evaluate the pew, or wonder about the pew’s strength. They just sit down. They exercise faith. The faith is not based on a feeling about the pew, but rather on the confident trust that the pew will hold them up. The reverse is also true. If a person says they believe that the pew can hold them but they never sit down, they are not exercising faith because they did not act on what they said they believed. Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.
The point
True faith is not intellectual belief but confident action based on trust. We believe in God not by how we feel, but by acting as if His promises are true.
Scripture
Hebrews 11:1James 2:26
Audience
Adults
Tone
Enlightening
To tell aloud
under a minute · 114 words