You need to jump in

I interviewed a student and Wheaton about her religious faith. The student that I interviewed is a practicing Lutheran and was raised in a Lutheran household. Currently she is attending church once a week, and previously she attended church four times a week. Aside from attending church on a regular basis this student also prays on every day when she is not in church. When I asked her to describe her relationship with god she told me, “its not like any other relationship. God is like our father when you want a hug you can get a hug, but with god you have to be patient an its not on your terms, some times it doesn’t seem like he is real then there are sings and you just know that he is”. I asked what kinds of signs she meant and she used as an example if she was working hard for a grade, or was trying o be friends with some on and it wasn’t working, but then it managed to work out more beautifully than she ever imagined.
I the student if she hade ever done anything that went against her religious teachings, and she immediately answered that she had. What she told me was that she had been drinking and done something bad while she was drinking. She told me that afterwards she apologized to God and took it as a sign form God that she should not participate in those activities.
The most important thing that I learned from this interview was something that I did not even ask. What she told me was, “As some one who is not Christian you can’t really understand this you can’t just dip your toe in the water, you have to jump in.” This statement demonstrates how important cultural relevance is. It also shows that the logic of the Christian faith is based around the existence of God. I asked her if she had ever questioned her fait and was told that she had, but that she has always concluded to that God was real an that Go had always existed. In order to understand the logic of people of faith is imperative to accept the existence of God as the founding for cultural relevancy.