First Things First

Welcome to Faith Changes.  First of all I would like to introduce myself.  I work as a licensed professional engineer.  More importantly I am the father of three boys and the husband to the perfect wife.  Well, she is mostly perfect.  Okay, she is perfect when she is sleeping.  I do not claim to know it all, in fact if you have ever spoken with me I would tell you that I know less than most.  I did not grow up in church nor did I attend seminary.  I am not a bible scholar.  I first started attending church when I was a teenager because of a girl that I was dating.  As is the case with most teen boys I was more interested in the opposite sex than I was in the teaching that was going on.  Needless to say I didn’t learn a whole lot about the bible.  As an adult I have continued to attend church.  I have noticed over the years that adult services are slanted toward those who have grown up in church and have a solid understanding of the basic bible stories that are taught to children.  I have found this experience to be extremely frustrating.  I have always been a very intelligent person.  In school if the teachers had a question then I had the answer.  I have a bachelors in engineering and a masters in business and yet I had to sit through these services and pretend like I knew what the message was about because I did not have the background necessary to connect the dots.  That frustration is why I have decided to create this blog.  I am going to take it upon myself to go back and learn the stories that I should have learned as a child.  I want to learn the stories that my children know and I do not.  I want to learn the stories so that I don’t have to feel frustrated the next time I hear a message about David, Elijah, Elisha, or any other important character in the bible.  I am inviting you to share in my learning adventure.