I Want to Follow Jesus. What Do I Do Now?
You do not need to figure out the entire Christian life today. Start with a few simple next steps: talk with God, begin reading Scripture, connect with a healthy church, pursue baptism, and keep learning to follow Jesus.
You do not have to agree with us to investigate with us.
What are you trying to understand?
You do not need to know which branch of theology, philosophy, science, or history your question belongs to. Start with the question that brought you here.
Is there evidence for God?
Why should I trust the Bible?
Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
What does Christianity actually teach?
Do science and Christianity really conflict?
Can the Bible actually be trusted?
What can history actually tell us about Jesus?
Is there good reason to believe God exists?
We want the argument to be as strong as the evidence.
Come See Why is Christian. We believe Christianity is true. But that does not give us permission to exaggerate evidence, hide difficult questions, misrepresent science, dismiss skeptical arguments, or pretend scholars agree when they do not.
When the distinction matters, we separate four things.
Not every question has the same kind of answer.
Some questions do not fit neatly inside history, science, philosophy, or theology. We still want to address them seriously.
Who is Jesus?
Can God forgive me?
Why does God allow suffering?
Not every question has the same kind of answer.
Some historical facts have strong scholarly support.
Some scientific questions remain open.
Some philosophical arguments are debated.
Some questions go beyond what science or historical methods can establish directly.
Christians themselves also disagree about some secondary issues.
Come See Why will not hide those differences.
When the evidence is strong, we will say so.
When it is debated, we will say that too.
When we do not know, we would rather say "we do not know" than manufacture certainty.
That is part of taking truth seriously.
Christianity eventually makes a claim about a person.
Arguments about the universe may raise questions about God. Moral reasoning may raise questions about objective good and evil. Science may raise questions about why reality is the way it is. But none of those arguments, by themselves, establish Christianity.
Christianity ultimately makes historical and theological claims about Jesus of Nazareth. That is why Come See Why does not stop at generic belief in God. If Christianity is going to be investigated seriously, Jesus has to be investigated seriously too.
