Do I Need Feelings Of Assurance?
When I was in high school I was in a great church youth group where I learned much about Jesus. Yet there was at least one curious teaching that plagued me for years. It was continuously taught that in order to know that one is a Christian they have to feel assurance. In practice this conflicted with idea of justification by faith and it was very damaging to me because I spent too much time trying to get feelings of assurance and not enough time just trusting God. The quest for assurance has been a prominent theme in church history. Of course it is good to have assurance of salvation and assurance of God’s scripture in our lives. But it is more important to have faith. And it is important to realize that it is okay to have faith without feelings of assurance. We need to distinguish between objective assurance Continue Reading →