Wrestling with doubt

Steve Midgley  |  Features  |  pastoral care
Date posted:  1 May 2022
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Wrestling with doubt

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Doubt, generally, doesn’t have a good reputation.

It’s seen as the enemy of faith; the underminer of faith; even, finally, the destroyer of faith. And it is, at times, all those things.

James is particularly hard on doubt. ‘When you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do’ (James 1:6-8).

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