I was talking to a friend from another part of the country last night. He and his family are looking for a new church but are having a hard time. One church says that out of the five gifts of the spirit (which we talked about in one of our recent Network gatherings), only the gifts of teacher and shepherd are active today. Another talked about good things but was just “dead” as he described it. I sat with another friend who uses an Assembly of God resource to help disciple new believers. Somebody took issue with it because of some of the theology in the book. I was a part of a church for a while that got hyper focused on the Holy Spirit and asking for things like gold dust and gems to appear. Another denomination holds human reason and church tradition with the same authority as scripture. I asked which of those three things trumps the others when there is conflict, and their answer was human reason. So many different takes on things. How do we know what is right? How do we know what is true?