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You’re Not Behind in Your Faith · UNMASKED with Wesley Farnsworth

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  Somewhere along the way, we absorbed a timeline for faith
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  that doesn't actually exist. We we've believed this myth that
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  there's a perfect journey out there.
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  We imagined progress as a straight line that starts with
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  conversion and then goes to growth.
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  The maturity stability. Questions were answered, Doubts
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  were resolved, confidence secured.
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  But faith looks more like a spiritual spiral than a
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  staircase. You revisit the same questions
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  at deeper levels. As you grow, you encounter
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  familiar struggles with new awareness.
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  You grow not by avoiding tension, but by engaging it
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  honestly. Paul writes in Philippians 1/6.
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  He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.
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  That implies process, ongoing formation, incomplete chapters.
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  Faith is not something that you graduate from struggling with.
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  It's something that you learn to carry with integrity.