What if doubt is not a defect?

What if doubt isn’t a defect but a feature of life fully lived? That was the question Justin Ley and Melissa Lock invited us to try on for size this week.

If the Bible is an indication, people have struggled with the oh-so-human appetite for certainty since the beginning and has shown how it comes at the expense of our relationships and growth. Also known as, life!

Here are three glimpses of the Bible’s general attitude of creation and revolution and the human struggle that is part of it all. Take a ROAM with them and stretch your doubting muscles in good company.

Genesis 11.1-9

That's the story of the Tower of Babel (pretty confusing really - and that isn't meant to be a pun).

John 20.24-29

The story of Thomas

Matthew 5.14-17

"Let your light (questions, ideas, etc) shine." And then Jesus (the great rug puller) says, "Do not think I have come to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them." His doubts or wonderings, or new ideas, aren't meant to tear down, but to build something new that mattes.