The search for Christianity
The question This all started for me somewhere in the past couple years. I can’t point to a specific moment, but observing the evangelical community over this time led me to the conclusion that this was no longer the style of church for me. I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I knew something had to change. I’ll have more to say on this in a later article. But while these thoughts were in my head, my brother Pete told me that he had been wrestling with questions of how to know what God’s will is. More will be said on this later, too. But ultimately it led to a profound question: If we hadn’t been exposed to Christianity at a young age, if we encountered it instead now, would we be convinced it is true? As a child, the family environment was hardly something you’d call religious, but there were remnants of a Catholic faith here and there: a sacred heart picture of Jesus on the wall, an occasional comment about praying something to Mother Mary to ward off Satan, a rare atte