Belief is a difficult thing, especially for modern people.
This is a basic assumption for us at City Church. We’re not just a community for the convinced but also for the curious and spiritually conflicted as well. We want to be a genuinely safe place for anyone to process their doubts. Starting this Sunday, we’ll explore some of the most common questions people have about the Christian faith in a new sermon series called Why? Questions About Christianity.
While I hope these messages will be especially helpful for those who don’t believe, it’s also a series for those of us who identify as Christian or may not be sure what we believe. Flannery O’Connor said in her writing there was “always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of our times. It’s hard to believe always but more so in the world we live in now.”
This Sunday we’ll look at the age-old question “why would God allow evil and suffering?” It is, of course, a poignant subject to consider on September 11, a day that epitomizes the trauma of evil and suffering. While I do believe there are meaningful answers to the question, I’ve found in my pastoral experience people are interested in more than merely solving the intellectual problem of evil. We long to know what to do with the spiritual discomfort in us caused by our own personal suffering.
See you Sunday—and don’t forget to invite someone else to join you!