regarding faith in God. strength of faith and increasing faith .?

Question

a person who has it made so to speak may seem to have great faith . the minister in your church for instants. he is supported and congradulated often for his faith. what about the poor person in the back pew . this man suffers greatly . he still keeps absolute faith yet it seems not even the minister sees him as a man to ask about faith . why do we ask the successful somewhat rich people about how to have faith and not the poor the hungery and the sad
can you explain this to me.

Answer 1

some relate success to great faith. This is the prosperity faith taught in some churches that are missing a few ingredients.
What about learning obedience through suffering? (It's in Hebrews 8)
Does the church teach of repentance WITH confession and forgiveness?

Most do not relate with the Apostle Paul. Shipwrecked, condemned, whipped, jailed and yet, this man was continually humble and his faith was stretched by God's grace. Nowhere in the Bible does it list of Paul ever going home after a days work. His faith suffered martyrdom in the end.
Faith cannot be measured by materialistic things. Faith can only be judged by how much trust you place in God and how little self is weighed in all solutions.
In the last part of Hebrews, it talks of believers who did not "receive" the promise. Their reward was eternal relationship with God. Yet, they did not receive the promise while on earth. It did not matter. Their true faith was centered in God's will.

Answer 2

The position that faith contradicts rationality holds that beliefs held by faith alone are held without justification. Those who hold this position believe that any belief held without a rational justification is arbitrary. In their view applying faith consistently undermines the ability to think. When truth is determined by faith, dogma, "intuitive experience" or "sight" rather than reason and factual analysis, there is no objective criteria for determining a statement as true. Wishful thinking and other cognitive biases will result in arbitrary ideas, true or false, being accepted, in turn resulting in contradictions. The resultant contradictions prevent higher level abstractions from being made and rationalizations for beliefs held thus becoming increasingly abstruse and attenuated. An example would be the claim that faith accesses things beyond the ability of reason which are "true," though they cannot provide proof for the claim — hence, a tautology. Those who believe that faith contradicts rationality argue that to the degree which ideas are taken on faith, the process of thinking is subverted

Answer 3

Sometimes the guy in the back row is destined for a greater glory than the one behind the pulpit. Only God knows the hearts of men.

Answer 4

Is it the poor man's fault that no one will ask him about his faith? Seems to me the pastor who doesn't speak to all of his congregation needs to pray about why he ignores that POOR man. It is not RELIGIONS fault it seems to me to be the short-sighted pastor and/or congregation. Maybe this hypothetical church of yours needs an attitude adjustment. ?

Answer 5

Ask and you will receive an answere
Ask anyone, there is no high or low in the eyes of God
Only to the flesh is this so, the lower
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