Introduction
H
ow are you doing? I hadn’t seen my friend in a while, so it was a natural question for him to ask. And it was an easy question to answer. I talked about my job. My family. Our church. Our holiday. Everything was going fine. I was doing well. Some things were going great. “No, I mean, how are you doing in your faith?” he said. Oh. I didn’t know, really. I was still a Christian, which was, well, a good start. Maybe that qualified me to answer, “Fine”. Perhaps it even allowed me to say “Doing well”. Probably it didn’t mean I could say, “Going great”. How would you answer that question? How are you doing in your Christian life? Some of us are worried when we don’t need to be. Others of us are confident when we have no reason to be. Most of us know we 7