The Frustrating Unpredictability of Faith

Writing about ministering to postmodern skeptics, Don Everts and Doug Schaupp share a helpful insight into the mystery of God's movement:

The first lesson they have taught us about the path to faith is that it is, in the end, mysterious. Again and again we found ourselves marveling at transformations that we never would have anticipated and shaking our heads in frustration at those who seemed near to faith but never got there. The gospel seeds that had been…