{"id":6741,"date":"2025-09-28T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:56:38","slug":"trials-maturity-and-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/trials-maturity-and-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trials, Maturity And Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ready to Quit? Perhaps this story about a bridge will help:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940):<\/strong> When engineers built the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington , it was one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. But just months after opening, strong winds caused the bridge to twist and vibrate in ways the designers hadn&#8217;t fully anticipated. The metal and concrete couldn&#8217;t handle the stress. Eventually, the bridge tore itself apart and collapsed into the river below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What this means for you and your Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Testing is a metaphor<\/strong>. Stress, failure, and setbacks are part of life. Just like bridges, people are tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real moments that overwhelm you emotionally, mentally, physically, socially, or spiritually &#8212; are signs of <strong>testing<\/strong> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything eventually fails. Nothing lasts forever. But anything <strong>truly important<\/strong> must be <strong>thoroughly tested<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why Testing Matters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheap toys from the dollar store break easily because they are not built to last. No one expects them to carry weight or withstand pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But anything that matters&#8211; anything that could affect someone else&#8211;<strong>must be tested<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Power of Safe Testing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weaknesses and vulnerabilities are often revealed through testing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work that has been done to grow, heal, and prove yourself is constantly exposed to pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But real testing happens in <strong>safe enviornments<\/strong>&#8212; places where failure is part of the process, not the end of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s where <strong>adjustments are made and lessons are learned<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God won&#8217;t let you fail <strong>prematurely<\/strong>! And when you do fail, fail around people who are <strong>invested in your design<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowinght that the testing of your faith produces endurance&#8221;.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; James 1:2-3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready to Quit? Perhaps this story about a bridge will help: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940): When engineers built the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington , it was one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. But just months after opening, strong winds caused the bridge to twist and vibrate in ways the designers hadn&#8217;t fully anticipated. The metal and concrete couldn&#8217;t handle the stress. Eventually, the bridge tore itself apart and collapsed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-formation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6770,"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions\/6770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redpoint.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}