Believing is Seeing | John 20:24-31 | Duane Brooks

Scripture

• John 20:24–31

About this sermon

Are you struggling with doubt? How do we choose between faith and reason? Actually, we don't have to. As he tells Thomas's conversion story, John contrasts faith with sight. After the ascension, every believer has placed confidence in the testimony of the eyewitnesses. What conditions are we placing on our faith today? Believe and you will see. Message based on John 20:24-31. Quotes: Fyodor Dostoevsky: I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt. Aldous Huxley: I had reasons that I did not want Christianity to be true, because if it were true, I would have to change the way I lived. Madeleine L’Engle: We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it. Duane Brooks: Jesus will stop at nothing to get to the one who is still not believing. N. T. Wright: The Quest for the Historical Jesus. "T" Teacher, if the European scholars have lost Jesus, that is their problem. We have not lost him. We know him. We love him. T. S. Eliot: Seeing is believing . . . There is another way. Craig Groeschel: Either we believe God or we are just playing church. Thomas the wonderer becomes Thomas the worshiper becomes Thomas the witness. Henry Drummond: It ought to be placed in the forefront of all Christian teaching that Christ's mission on earth was to give men Life. "I am come," that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more abundantly.

Topics

• Faith