We think we have no evil spirits. It's been a long time since we lost sleep worrying about eating the meat sacrificed to idols. We might tip our hats to the authority of Jesus, but we feel little responsibility to change our lives in order to obey him. The idea of angels falling prostrate before Christ seems weird to us. It happens every year in our confirmation classes.
Young people begin the pro-gram with the hope of finding answers to their questions.
Rightly so, they want to mature and become more adult about their faith. The expectation is, however, that a time will come when they will know what they believe and will no longer have to strug-gle with their doubts. What I am saying is that we can never take away the mystery, or the unknown part, of our faith. We are all children, and never really adults, when it comes to our relationship with God. Parents, it seems to me, are especially prone to harbor illusions of self-sufficiency.