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3 Buckets of Doubt

January 27, 2010

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These days I’m reading Faith and Doubt by John Ortberg, senior pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church (my church in college) and a Fuller trustee.  He provides 3 helpful buckets for his own doubts:

Bucket #1 – Why doesn’t God provide more indisputable proof of Himself?

Bucket #2 – Why aren’t Jesus’ followers, and the church, better examples of Jesus?

Bucket #3 – Why is there suffering?

Bucket #3 is the more prevalent in my own life, especially given the earthquake in Haiti.  Honestly, I can’t even watch the news for much more than 10 seconds.  One of our friend’s daughter is in the process of adopting a two year-old from Haiti.  The paperwork is all finished and she and her husband were awaiting a passport for their soon-to-be daughter when the earthquake hit.  The marvelous news is that the orphanage and the kids are OK.  But she’s still in Haiti.  That situation has brought it all home for me.

I don’t have easy answers.  Anyone who tells you they do is in denial.

I don’t even have a nice way to wrap up this blog.

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