Most people today do not know the joy and peace that comes from living by faith. Outside of the church, there is much strange thinking about the subject of faith. It is treated as a noun instead of a verb. Faith is an action word and it is always linked with obedience. We are living in an age when it is assumed that faith means nothing in the realities of contemporary life. It is a greater tragedy when the believer in passivity fails to trust God to the point of personal and active involvement in the life of faith. Romans 14:23 reminds us that whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Our lifestyle must arise out of a genuine trust in God or it will be categorized as sinful.