What wonderful profundity there is in your utterances! The surface meaning lies open before us and charms beginners. The more I explore the Bible and become familiar with the content of the faith, the more I echo Augustine: To become part of this world we must enter it, immerse ourselves in it in order to be absorbed by it. We need to retrace our steps, stop and reflect at each site in order to explore it in depth.

This happens concretely in the pages of the Bible where we encounter the living word of God and are converted afresh as we become familiar with His voice.ĭiligent and consistent reading creates familiarity with the world of the Bible… We cannot venture into the Bible as tourists we must become inhabitants of the land. We need to become thoroughly familiar with the object of our faith by turning to it (Him) again and again. A conversant faith is a faith that is familiar to and intimately known by the one who believes With this short etymology, let me list a few things that I’m intending “conversant faith” to mean.

The word “conversant” derives from the Latin word conversari, which means “to live with, keep company with,” literally “turn about with,” from Latin con– “with” + versare, frequentative of vertere– “to turn.” It has the same Latin root as “convert.” So conversant basically has the twofold sense of “familiar with” and “able to talk about.” There is an underlying thought with both definitions. A rchaic: having regular or frequentconversation.Familiar or knowledgeable, as by study or experience: conversant with medieval history.I’ve changed my blog’s name from “life and building” to “conversant faith,” and despite being a little harder to say, I think it better captures what my blog is about. All in all, I’m happy it happened, but I’m also happy to be back. During this time I had some good conversations with the Lord and also some affirming conversations with some brothers in the Lord whom I respect. I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but these last 2 months were somewhat an experiment in burial. In fact, Jesus invites us to follow Him precisely there ( John 12:24-26). I’ve always heard that those who believe in the God of resurrection shouldn’t be afraid to let things fall into the ground and die. I pulled the whole thing down, let it go dark, and spent sometime to reflect on what I’m trying to accomplish in my writing. For the last two months I’ve taken a break from blogging.

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