It was the kind of sermon I’ve heard all my life — intellectual, loaded with facts, focused almost exclusively on getting the hearer to believe a certain statement or point of view to be true. We’d prided ourselves on our charts of memorized verses and stacks of notebooks crammed with sermons, and we called that faith.

But faith isn’t belief. Faith is not mental assent to a set of statements as true.

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