Believing with the heart

As a guest preacher, Carmen Schrock, of Harrisonburg, VA., told the congregation of Park View Mennonite Church, that the "doubting Thomas" we have been taught to cast in a negative light in the post-resurrection story of Jesus appearing to his disciples is an unfair characterization because he is "all of us." We, too, need to see and touch Jesus in a very human way to have faith. Jesus did not condemn Thomas for his unbelief, but accepted his insistence on having proof and pushed him to develop his faith to the point of "not having to see" to believe.