Learn: Faith Formation at First
Our stories connect us.
Do you have that one friend that no matter the situation always seems to relate it to a TV show or Movie they’ve watched, book they’ve read, or a song they’ve listened to? Do you remember the last time you were in a really good conversation where the story one person told reminded you of something in your life and then your story reminded someone else of something in their life and it just kept going like that; one interconnected story after another until you were left feeling tied to one another with an invisible, unbreakable string?
Our stories connect us to God.
Faith formation is the process of learning God’s stories, in such a way that you are in regular conversation with them, and they begin to be the stories that come to mind that you relate to in the everyday occurrences of your life. As this happens over time, you see yourself more and more unbreakably tied to God’s story and the people of God that lived it first. In a very real way, God’s story becomes your story and the people of God become your people, and as you live with this reality, you realize evermore clearly that you are one of God’s people too, and that you are living the continuation of God’s story every day.
Seeing the connections to God’s Story.
To help you see more clearly how you are one of God’s people, Faith Formation at First focuses on the study of scripture as a means of learning God’s stories and learning to pray as a means of reflecting on where your life and God’s story meet.