Revealing Faith

Seeing and believing the revelation of God

Dear Church Leaders (and everyone else)

Further to this part of this section of last month’s post on Jeremiah 5…

…I have long thought that there is a strong case to be made that the evidence for faith in Jesus Christ is remarkably good. And I have often wondered why, given the strength of the evidence, more people do not believe. I considered that question in a book called Revealing Faith that I wrote in 2017/2018 during a time between jobs. And I plan to post it on another Substack later this year.

One of the recurring themes of Revealing Faith is that there are many parallels between how people respond to the evidence for faith in Jesus Christ and how they respond to the evidence for other things. And in the context of the events of the past few years, I plan to post some additional reflections on that here on Dear Church Leaders (and everyone else).

…Revealing Faith is now scheduled for publication on this Substack during July and August. Below is an outline structure. You are welcome to subscribe to receive the nine chapters (plus appendix) by email week by week.

Revealing Faith is the follow-up to The Big Reveal, which I published as a Substack last year. Like The Big Reveal, I have chosen to make Revealing Faith freely available to anyone to who wants to read it. Please do let others who might be interested know about it.

As noted in the Jeremiah 5 post, I plan to put out posts on each of the chapters of Revealing Faith in the context of what has happened since I originally wrote them — prior to 2020. All being well, those articles will appear on Dear Church Leaders (and everyone else) sometime later this year.

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Outline structure of Revealing Faith

Part (i): Evidence

• 1. Evaluating the evidence

  • 1A. The importance of evidence

  • 1B. Extraordinary claims

  • 1C. Extraordinary evidence

• 2. Evidence for the resurrection

  • 2A. Context for the resurrection

  • 2B. Creation and the resurrection

  • 2C. Witnesses to the resurrection

• 3. Beyond the evidence

  • 3A. The evidence is remarkably good

  • 3B. The evidence is not necessarily considered carefully

  • 3C. The evidence is not necessarily the main thing

Part (ii): Revelation

• 4. The manner of God’s revelation

  • 4A. Revelation through the word of God

  • 4B. Revelation through the Son of God

  • 4C. Revelation through the Spirit of God

• 5. The nature of God’s revelation

  • 5A. Revelation comes as a gift from God

  • 5B. Revelation comes through faith in Jesus Christ

  • 5C. Revelation comes to those willing to receive it

• 6. The battle for God’s revelation

  • 6A. The bigger picture

  • 6B. The unseen enemy

  • 6C. The unseen battle

Part (iii): Response

• 7. A matter of choice?

  • 7A. The nature of choice

  • 7B. Choice and relationship with God

  • 7C. Choice and behaviour

• 8. An open mind?

  • 8A. We cannot properly comprehend God’s revelation

  • 8B. We cannot objectively consider God’s revelation

  • 8C. We are unwilling to believe God’s revelation

• 9. Believing and seeing

  • 9A. Rescue

  • 9B. Repentance

  • 9C. Regeneration

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Some posts can also be found on Unexpected Turns

Revealing Faith: Seeing and believing the revelation of God (to be published July/August 2025)

The Big Reveal: Christianity carefully considered as the solution to a problem