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Hey there, Sprouds. Today is Friday, January 18th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Sprauds podcast,

we have been talking about the theological virtue of faith, how a theological virtue is something

that we are given once we grow in relationship with God himself, how faith rests on belief,

but it rests on belief in fact, fact that is unchangeable, whether people agree with us or not.

We also talked about how faith can come to us in different ways.

We talked about various saints and their journeys to faith.

And also we talked about how faith demands a leap of faith, meaning we aren't necessarily

going to see every little detail that we believe in, and yet we believe simply because God said it is true

and we believe him. Today we are going to talk about another important aspect of faith,

and that is how faith demands action. So faith is really the first step in the Christian life.

The first thing that we do as Christians is believe.

We maybe have examined and searched for the truth.

Maybe we had a profound moment where Jesus really came and ministered to us in a moment.

We embrace that virtue of faith.

We see it and know it as truth. But then what?

It is not simply enough to believe. In fact, in various places in the scriptures, we are told

that faith without works is dead. And now this makes sense. If we believe that something is true, if we believe that God

is the ultimate truth in the universe that he made us and loved us and he wants us to do his work,

well, then we should probably do his work. We also, once we have this beautiful truth that transforms our

very lives, we should feel motivated to share that truth, to share it, to allow other people to

see the beautiful truth of God. Chances are there are people in your life, your parents, your teachers,

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