RenegadeFaith.org is an outlet for my expression of my beliefs and the experiences and beliefs of my friends and family. I would like RenegadeFaith.org to be a website where someone who doesn’t believe in the same things that I do would feel comfortable to come to the website and read about real issues. I would also like the website to be a place where other Christians could come and be encouraged and maybe open up their minds and hearts to new areas in their walk with the Lord..

Let me explain the name Renegade Faith:

renegade /renna gayd/ n 1 a person who abandons previously held beliefs or loyalties 2 a person who chooses to live outside laws or conventions.

I believe the Lord wants us to be renegades. We need to abandon all of our knowledge and ideas, live outside of religious laws and conventional ways of thinking and living and come to know Jesus personally. It is a simple concept but a difficult one to actually live. Forget all that you have been taught about Jesus and God and go straight to the source.

Jesus does not care how “good” of a person you are, He is interested in you as you are right now. The Lord will not love you more if you are nice and polite. Jesus wants a personal relationship with you and He wants it to be real. If you are hurt and mad at God, then let Him know. If you feel that you are to “evil” or “bad” to even talk to the Lord that is just a bunch of crap. Jesus died on the cross for us while we were still in our sins, He did not wait until we cleaned ourselves up and stopped sinning before He reached out to us. We cannot clean ourselves up and stop sinning anyway. If we don’t come to the Lord because we are waiting until we are presentable enough to even speak to Him, we will find out that that day will never come. All of the junk inside of us cannot be overcome until we have the “Overcomer” in our hearts working it out with us.

Religion is a deceitful trap. Religion makes us feel that we can just follow some rules and regulations and be ok with God and earn a ticket to Heaven. Religion can also keep you trapped in your own knowledge and wisdom to the point where you will be stuck in a box with no real life.

Freedom in Jesus Christ cannot be justly explained it must be experienced. Most people see the bound up, uptight, narrow minded religious people that proclaim to have freedom in Christ and think, “If that is freedom, I don’t want anything to do with it,” and I agree completely, I don’t want anything to do with that “so called” freedom either. Freedom in Christ is just that, freedom to screw up, freedom to not be perfect, freedom to always be able to turn to someone who will always love and except you even when you are feeling like the scum of the earth.

Freedom starts with love. I don’t see much love being expressed in the church today. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of strong Christian people who do express it in many different powerful ways but they seem to be the exception. I would like to show and express that love without judgment and self-righteousness. I pray that this site will be a place where that could be accomplished in some degree. Hopefully as this site progresses a lot of these issues will be explored and communicated in many different and artistic ways.

Sincerely,
Sean Carter
Sean@RenegadeFaith.org