Why Faith Isn’t Just About What You Believe

About this episode

This episode explores the nature of belief and faith beyond mere ideas, focusing on the Apostles' Creed and the experiences of the first followers of Jesus.

What does it actually mean to believe? Not just what you believe—but how you believe. In this message, we explore a part of the Apostles’ Creed that many people struggle with, including the idea of the virgin birth. But instead of trying to explain it away or prove it logically, we take a different approach. How did the first followers of Jesus come to believe something they couldn’t fully understand? And what does that mean for us today? This message invites us to move beyond faith as a set of ideas—and into something more lived, more experienced, and more honest.

Topics covered

• faith
• belief
• Apostles' Creed
• virgin birth
• Christianity
• spiritual experience

Keywords

• faith
• belief
• Apostles' Creed
• virgin birth
• Christianity
• spirituality
• experience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Westwinds Church

Books & works: Apostles’ Creed

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