A Little Faith Is Faith

God’s outrageous claim is that you can survive your bouts with doubt — and not only that but your faith could very well emerge even stronger as a result.

• If the gospel is really Christ’s finished work, why does Adventism feel like so much unfinished work?


• If I’m already in Christ, why am I still being examined, measured, sealed, judged, proved?


• If the Spirit lives in me, why do I feel like my identity is always on probation?


• Why is rest — the thing the Sabbath was supposed to teach me — the one thing I

To put it yet another way, what matters most about you in God’s sight is not the bad or good things you’ve done but your trust and openness to Christ versus your self-trust and defensiveness toward Christ.

trust based on evidence. In a way, that’s how biblical faith works.