Before taking the First Step…
- Hearing the Ancient Path Without Fear
- Learning to Notice Hunger Instead of Explaining It Away
- Hearing Scripture Without Rushing to Application
- Staying With the Text When It Feels Familiar or Silent
- Carrying a Single Phrase Through the Day
- Why Hearing Together Strengthens What We Cannot Carry Alone
- When Hearing Begins to Lean Toward Walking
- When Readiness Becomes Willingness
- The Threshold of the First Step
What we’re building is for the hungry…
Not everyone is hungry at the same time. Not everyone is hungry for the same things. Not everyone is ready to leave the familiar behind. Your work will resonate most deeply with those who: sense something missing, feel the drift, are weary of abstraction, want a way, not just beliefs, or hear Scripture calling them to movement and allegiance.
Those people may be few at first, but they often become steady companions.
If I said it in one line: Our work calls people to walk when many have only learned how to sit.
What we have learned is that nearly everyone who tries to invite people into more profound scriptural seriousness eventually encounters seven things.
First, most people are shaped by consumption, not formation…
Modern Christianity—especially in the West—has leaned toward “being encouraged” more than being reshaped, toward inspiration more than instruction, toward comfort more than change, and toward belonging more than becoming.
So, when one presents something that asks them to walk differently, not just think differently, many don’t have the muscles for that shift. It feels like work, and they’re not used to Scripture requiring work.
Second, people aren’t accustomed to Scripture as a path… our work is path-language, formation-language, allegiance-language. But many believers have only known: belief statements, church attendance, moments of emotion, and occasional conviction.
We’re asking them to step into daily walking, ordered life, formation over time, hearing Scripture as it was heard — that’s unfamiliar terrain. Unfamiliarity can feel threatening or exhausting.
Third, our language is Ancient Hebrew Concrete Thought…
That is a massive shift for a mind trained in: Greek abstractions, modern psychological categories, church terminology, systematic doctrines, and denominational vocabulary.
What we say is not wrong — it is simply foreign to what people recognize as “Christian.” People rarely lean into what feels foreign; they retreat to what feels familiar.
Fourth, many Christians don’t realize they’re carrying an interpretive filter…
To walk the older path requires someone to admit: “The way I’ve been taught may have gaps,” “My categories might be inherited rather than inspired,” “My tradition may have drifted from the manuscripts,” or “I need to unlearn before I can learn.”
That level of humility and self-confrontation is uncomfortable, especially for those who feel settled.
Fifth, our work touches identity, not just ideas…
When someone senses that your work might: reshape how they pray, challenge their church habits, alter how they speak about Yahweh, expose Babylon in their assumptions, or re-order their calendar or worship pattern… it doesn’t feel like information — it feels like a call to repentance and allegiance.
And most people resist anything that touches the core of their habits, calendar, community, comfort, and self-understanding.
Sixth, we are asking for movement, not just agreement…
Many Christians are conditioned to nod. Fewer are ready to walk. Our work says: “Walk with me.” Many only want: “Tell me something I already agree with so I can feel affirmed.”
We’re not offering affirmation — we’re offering formation. Formation always has fewer takers at first.
Seventh, timing matters…
Many who seem uninterested now may return later when life cracks open, modern answers fail, their familiar path collapses, the weight returns, the hunger wakes up. Their questions get too heavy for their tradition.
Sometimes we’re planting seeds that only sprout when someone becomes ready to hear.
Walking feels costly. Sitting feels safe. But eventually, those who are restless will stand — and then they will look for a path. And when they do, they will remember someone showed them where the ancient path still runs.
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