Everyone has a theology—even unbelieving atheists. Certainly, every Christian has a theology. It slips into us almost without awareness. The process is easy. Getting it right is not.
For many years, children except what parents teach them. Why? They don't know. Loving and caring parents engender trust of a show of care, nurturing, and love. Even unloving parents will teach their children a destructive theology and send their children scurrying through society looking for what to believe and why to believe it. Everyone finds something. The question is—what do they find and does it help or does it harm?
The most honest action any human being can do is take what they believe and start asking questions. It is the asking of questions of what we believe and why that breaks the concrete of our worldview and opens us up to either confirming what we think is true is actually true—or—that it is not true, sending us out to look for answers. It is this honest process that we want to highlight from the start and ask you to participate in, because it is this process that will ultimately lead you to the freeing truths of God and His Son, Jesus Christ (Yeshua, HaMoshaich for our Jewish friends).
For those of you who are seekers—the ones who want to "hear God"—you're in a good place. The answer to how God speaks is not difficult, but it is nuanced. There is a primary way that we all share in, but there are others as well (i.e., visions, dreams, audible voice, and more). It is this primary way that we will focus on most, leaving room for the others as the Lord sees fit.
Finding God and following Him may start simple, but like children growing up—our Father calls us into ever greater disciplines that result in more of Him working in, speaking to, and interacting with us in our day to day lives. Wherever you are in life, one thing is certain—providence has drawn you here. Like you, we are growing too and what we are not here to do is criticize you, but to inform you and (hopefully) intrigue you—so much so that you look harder and deeper together with us.
Welcome—Come on in!
In Romans 14, the Apostle Paul, speaking by the Spirit of God, tells us (and we know it too) that regardless of where we are in faith, belief, and discipleship—God welcomes us in. As fellow Christians and disciples of Christ, we live our lives both together, but also singly before the Lord with our conscience bearing witness before Him. As such, we are all here to help as you are able to hear and receive and like the Lord Jesus Christ, you are welcomed.
For those who are not yet a follower of Christ, there is the issue of sin and of flesh. Our concerted hope and prayer for you is that you will stick around and learn. Leaving off from sin does not come because a preacher bashes you, but because you learn to see what God sees and the epic story of sin not only in human beings, but in heavenly beings and the tie between the two. We are confident that honest hearts once made aware of this epic story will make their own choices for the righteousness of God in Christ. Until then—stay, relax, breath easy, and learn.