Stop Chasing Almost-Christian Answers
If you want the real kingdom, stop chasing the less-than-perfect answers!
It’s not because those paths lack earnest people.
It’s not because they miss every scrap of truth.
It’s not because they fail to offer community or comfort.
No. They fail because they shrink the living God into something flatter, easier, and smaller than Love Himself.
I am a husband, father of 4, proud grandpa, and successful businessman with real budgets, real teams, and real consequences. I have stared down financial cliffs and family storms, and I have learned one thing above all: what lasts is built on what is true.
When I first set out to find the Kingdom, I was wide open. I studied the Qur’an. Read the Book of Mormon. Sat on my front porch with LDS missionaries, even invited them in, genuinely trying to understand. I wanted God. I wanted reality. But every time I held those claims up to Scripture and plain reason, the seams showed.
Once you see what the Trinity actually is, you cannot unsee the counterfeits.
God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Scripture does not hand us a math problem. It hands us a relationship.
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” (Deuteronomy 6:4)
“In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God… and the Word became flesh.” (John 1:1, 14)
Thomas falls before the risen Jesus: “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28)
Ananias lies to the Holy Spirit — Peter says he lied to God. (Acts 5:3-4)
One divine Name for Three: “baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19)
The earliest Christians lived this without apology. St. Athanasius put it like lightning: “The Son of God became man so that we might become like Him.” Not second-tier gods. Partakers of the divine nature by grace.
If the Son is a creature, He can’t deify you.
If the Spirit is a force, He can’t make you sons and daughters.
If the Father was once what you are, He cannot be the uncreated Fountain of life.
The Trinity is the only foundation that makes the Incarnation and the Cross actually save.
Tonight, across this country, sincere people are doing the same thing I once did. They scroll faith feeds looking for something that feels relevant. They open mindfulness apps for quick inspiration. They gather the family for a faith that promises eternal families without the eternal God who is Family from before time. They feel the warmth. They sense the structure. They ignore the Truth.
How tragic.
They trade the blazing center, one God in three Persons, co-eternal, co-equal, never confused, never divided, for a solitary will that cannot truly condescend, or three separate beings united only in purpose, or a God who was once like us and calls us to climb the same ladder. They walk away with a smaller story. A manageable deity. A gospel that collapses the moment you press on it.
You feel that pull, don’t you?
The dad who just wants solid ground for his kids. The husband tired of shallow answers that never touch the ache in his marriage. The leader, like me, with all the worldly success and knew something was missing until the ancient faith filled the hole. You sense the seams when a system claims to be “restored” yet quietly removes the mystery that makes salvation possible.
I get it. I was there.
It’s About Worship and Salvation
Worship: You become like what you adore. If you worship a solitary will, you will become hard. If you worship self-ascent, you will become proud. If you worship the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, you will be drawn into self-giving love.
Salvation: Only the God-Man heals what is human. “What is not assumed is not healed.” (St. Gregory the Theologian) If Jesus is less than God, He can’t unite us to God. If He is less than man, He can’t heal us. The Trinity is the only reality where the Incarnation and Cross save.
Here is the governing principle that ties it all together: Where you place your worship, there your heart, and your eternity, will be formed.
Some of you feel that quiet trigger right now. Good. It means your soul is still alive and hungry. I was not condemning the people on those porches, many are sincere. I am warning the men and women who wants to build something which touches eternity.
The world does not need more entertained believers with diagrams that fit on a napkin or fancy PowerPoint presentation. It needs rooted, faithful heads of household who guard the ancient deposit, who protect the innocent by teaching truth, who steward their time and treasure like they are preparing for an eternal reality. Men and women who fight the real spiritual battle, not with anger, but with ordered loves and disciplined presence. Leaders who stand up against every principality that wants to shrink God.
This is the line in the sand.
Do not trade the living God for a simpler story. The Trinity is not optional doctrine. It is the door to the Kingdom I was seeking all along. It is the communion that makes worship sacred, prayer powerful, almsgiving an act of stewardship, and every act of fatherly leadership an icon of the Father’s love.
Hold fast to the Holy Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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This is article #6 in the series on my journey into the ancient Christian faith.
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