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Have you ever thought you were doing well in your faith, only to discover you could have been doing much better? Have you ever been confronted with a personal weakness or sin that made you long for transformation? Do you remember the discouragement and frustration? Well, last year I discovered a radical way to get focused and grow in God’s grace. Here is how it happened.
Word Wars. It was shortly before Lent, and I was trying to share my Catholic faith with Brent, a Protestant brother. I was in dire need of humility, among other things.
We were seated in the prison library, facing off like a pair of war-hungry generals. After a cursory prayer, we unsheathed our “weapons”: Bibles, concordances, commentaries, and assorted other munitions. We gave those who heard our heated discussion plenty of reason not to become Christian. Indiscriminately launching verses of sacred Scripture at one another, seeking only to topple the other’s doctrinal strongholds, we unwittingly made a mockery of the charity we both claimed to believe in.
If only I had been more sensitive to the church’s teachings about evangelization and respect for others. Then I might have avoided the long weeks of conflict that followed, and Brent…
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