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Becoming Faithful
Following Jesus and encouraging one another to grow in love, hope, faith, wisdom, and everyday life—one step at a time.
Our foundation
What Is Becoming Faithful?
Becoming Faithful is a growing ministry founded on Jesus Christ. We are learning to love God and love people, ask honest questions, welcome correction, and grow together in love, hope, faith, wisdom, and everyday life.
It began through everyday conversations, listening to people’s stories, and taking steps of faith. The complete account—including the beginning of this website—remains available in my own words.
How Becoming Faithful Defines Love
At the heart of Becoming Faithful is something simple: Love God and love people. But what does that love actually look like? For that, I want to point back to 1 Corinthians 13 in the King James Version. The KJV uses the word "charity" in this passage when describing this kind of love.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth." — 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8, King James Version
So Scripture shows us both what love is and what love is not. Love is patient and kind. It rejoices in truth, bears, believes, hopes, and endures. Love is not envious, prideful, self-seeking, easily provoked, or rejoicing in wrongdoing.
Scripture also shows why love is so vital. Paul writes that even if someone could speak with extraordinary gifts but did not have charity, he would become "as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." Even with great knowledge and faith, without charity, "I am nothing." And even after giving everything away, without charity, "it profiteth me nothing." — 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, King James Version
That is why love is crucial and cannot simply be another part of Becoming Faithful. It has to be at the core of how we speak, listen, correct, encourage, serve, disagree, learn, and grow together. We will not do this perfectly, but the goal is to keep trying, keep learning, keep growing, and keep moving forward—becoming a little more faithful today than we were yesterday.
" And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." — 1 Corinthians 13:13, King James Version
How We Grow
Becoming Faithful focuses on five areas of Growth: Love, Hope, Faith, Wisdom, and Everyday Life.
Love
Learning to love God and love people more faithfully in the way we speak, listen, serve, forgive, encourage, and live each day.
Hope
Learning to hold on to hope in God, especially when life feels uncertain, difficult, or different from what we expected
Faith
Learning to trust God more deeply, follow Him faithfully, and keep moving forward even when we do not have every answer or know exactly what comes next.
Wisdom
Learning to seek God's wisdom, ask better questions, listen carefully, learn from others, accept correction, and make thoughtful choices in everyday life
Everyday Life
Learning to live out what we believe in ordinary life through our choices, relationships, work, finances, habits, responsibilities, and the way we treat people each day.
What This Looks Like in Everyday Life
Becoming Faithful is not only about what we believe, but how those beliefs shape the way we live each day.
Growth can happen in every opportunity and situation, whether it be in the way we speak to people, handle disagreements, make decisions, use our time and money, respond to mistakes, or keep moving forward when life is difficult. But growth can also move us in the wrong direction. That is why perspective and intentionality matter. We want to intentionally grow in the kind of love the Bible describes in 1 Corinthians 13—becoming more patient, kind, truthful, humble, enduring, and faithful in the way we live.
Choosing the Direction We Grow
Every experience can shape us. Difficulties can make us more compassionate or more bitter. Disagreements can teach us to listen and understand, or cause us to become more defensive. Mistakes can teach us humility and wisdom, or become something we stubbornly refuse to learn from.
When we respond through love, it can help cast out fear, as 1 John 4:18 says, “perfect love casteth out fear.” But when we respond through bitterness, defensiveness, or stubbornness, fear can grow, and that fear can lead us back into the same responses, creating a cycle that becomes difficult to break.
That is why we want to intentionally grow toward the love described in 1 Corinthians 13. Love that is patient, kind, truthful, humble, and enduring does not require us to hide our mistakes, questions, or struggles. Instead, it can give us the foundation to live transparently, receive correction, learn from what happens, and continue moving forward.
Learning Through Everyday Life
This means everyday life becomes an opportunity to learn. Our relationships with family, friends, coworkers, people in our communities, strangers, people we disagree with, and those we may only interact with briefly can all reveal opportunities for growth. Even brief interactions can have a lasting impact. As people, we know that first impressions can stay with us for a long time. A single negative experience can sometimes make someone hesitant to reach out, trust, or try again. A simple example is going to a restaurant one time, having a bad experience, and deciding that you never want to go back—even though that one experience may not represent every person or every future experience there. That is another reason why how we treat people matters. We may not always know what someone has experienced before meeting us, what impression our interaction may leave with them, or whether we will ever have another opportunity to interact with them. Our work, finances, decisions, successes, failures, questions, relationships, and even ordinary moments can all reveal areas where we are growing and areas where we still need to grow.
Growth is a Continuing Process
None of this means we will respond perfectly in every situation. We will make mistakes, misunderstand people, react poorly at times, and discover areas where we still need to grow. Even the wisdom and knowledge we gain can become an opportunity for pride if we begin believing that we already know enough, have all the answers, or no longer need to listen and learn from others. Pride can cause us to react poorly, resist correction, and become less willing to recognize when we may be wrong.
Remaining open to learning also does not mean that every idea or interpretation must be accepted as true. When something appears to go against the Bible, we do not want to simply disregard the person or their thought. Instead, we want to listen and understand where they believe their idea comes from in Scripture, how they came to understand or interpret it that way, and allow room for honest and respectful discussion about what the passage means. We should also be willing to explain where our own understanding comes from and remain humble enough to examine whether we may have misunderstood something ourselves.
Through those conversations, our ultimate standard is not our pride, personal opinion, tradition, or desire to be right. We continually return to the Word of God, examining Scripture in its context and seeking to understand what it actually teaches.
The goal is not perfection. The goal is to remain humble and willing to learn, accept correction, admit when we are wrong, make things right when possible, and intentionally keep moving forward—trying each day to become a little more faithful than the day before.
At the foundation of all of this is love—not simply love as we personally define it, but the love described in 1 Corinthians 13. Biblical love should shape how we listen, how we speak, how we disagree, how we receive correction, how we seek truth, and how we treat one another through the process. As we continually return to the Word of God, we also continually return to the heart of it: learning to love God and love people more faithfully.
Our Mission
The mission of Becoming Faithful is to Love God and Love People by following Jesus and encouraging one another to grow in love, hope, faith, wisdom, and everyday life.
Becoming Faithful is a place to learn openly, live transparently, ask honest questions, pursue accountability, and keep growing together. We do not claim to have everything figured out. We want to share the lessons, mistakes, questions, and growth along the way, remain willing to listen and be corrected, and keep moving forward one step at a time.
This space is open to everyone—whether you are simply curious, a believer, or unsure of what you believe. You are welcome to learn alongside us, ask questions, share your perspective, and see what following Jesus can look like in everyday life.
Above everything else, we want Becoming Faithful to remain centered on loving God and loving people. Becoming Faithful should never become something we protect for its own sake. If protecting the name ever requires us to stop loving people, ignore truth, resist correction, or lose sight of God, then we have lost the very reason Becoming Faithful exists.
Our Commitments
Becoming Faithful is not built on the idea that we will always get everything right. We are committed to remaining humble, learning openly, living transparently, asking honest questions, listening to understand, and being willing to receive correction.
We want accountability to come not only from people who agree with us, but also from people who disagree with us or criticize us. Truth does not become less important because of who speaks it. We want to listen, examine what is being said, return to Scripture, and change when correction is needed.
When we are wrong, we want to be willing to say, "We were wrong," make things right when possible, learn from it, and keep moving forward. Protecting the image, name, influence, following, or future of Becoming Faithful should never become more important than loving God, loving people, and telling the truth in love.
These commitments are not a claim that we will live them out perfectly. They are standards we want to continually return to and invite others to hold us accountable to.
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How You Can Participate
Becoming Faithful starts with one person. For me, that means it starts with me choosing each day to Love God and Love People more faithfully. From there, the hope is that one person impacts another person, who impacts another, and it continues one person at a time.
You do not have to give money to be part of Becoming Faithful. More than financial support, I want to see people become part of a community that is genuinely trying to Love God and Love People in everyday life. If one person chooses to love, listen, encourage, forgive, serve, learn, or help someone—and that impacts another person who does the same—that matters.
Another way you can help is simply by sharing and spreading the word. You can share Becoming Faithful with someone personally or share its posts, videos, stories, and resources across social media platforms. The purpose is not simply to grow numbers or gain followers. The hope is that sharing helps reach another person who may need encouragement, have a story to share, want to ask questions, or want to grow alongside the community.
Supporting the Work
Becoming Faithful will continue whether or not financial support comes in. Support can create more time and opportunity to listen, learn, create, connect with people, and reach more people one person at a time.
For anyone who chooses to support financially, the standard invitation is US$1 a month. Giving more is always voluntary and never gives anyone more influence, priority, or control over Becoming Faithful.
Financial support is only one way to participate. Sharing Becoming Faithful, encouraging another person, contributing your skills, asking questions, and choosing to Love God and Love People more faithfully all matter too.
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