Ponderings....

I read a blog by Heidi St John that got me to thinking. It was titled, "When the experts are wrong."  And often they ARE wrong.....deadly wrong.

And I began to think about when I was younger, especially in my twenties.  I was reared in a period of Christendom  where  formulas for faith were being touted and seminars and conferences were the essence of so much of what input we had spiritually because our churches were so helpless to help anyone.  Yet in the end, no matter how wonderful they were, many lives shipwrecked on these formulas. Yet those who held fast to God's Word, despite the failed spiritual formulas didn't sink when the formula fads passed away.

One thing I have learned is that FORMULA AND FAITH DO NOT MIX. Period.  It's not truth FAITH if it's a formula, whether it's Seven Life Principles, Character based curricula, Classical based education, Bible Memory programs, Homeschooling, Unschooling, Homesteading, Godly parenting "guarantees", or whatever....if your faith isn't based solely in God's Word, you are going to be disappointed in man-made formulas, no matter how spiritually based or Scripturally "sound" they seem. 

In the end, our lives will only yield fruit if Jesus and His Word is the center of it all...first and foremost. It's not about finding a church, or ministry, or going to the next revival or seminar.  It's about JESUS.