A friend of mine was baptized into a church as an infant but never came to personal faith in Christ. While in college he heard people talk about their personal conversion experience, and he realized he had never experienced that. So, he went with one of his friends to a revival service one night.
The old minister who preached was uneducated. He had been called to preach while plowing a field. He then taught himself to read and write. That night the old man opened his Bible and read haltingly, stumbling over several words. When he got through, he took off his glasses, closed his Bible, and said, “When I came here today I forgot my glasses and I forgot my Bible. These are borrowed glasses and this is a borrowed Bible, but what I’ve got to say ain’t borrowed.” The sheer authenticity of his testimony led my friend to a personal faith in Christ. There is no substitute for authenticity—not education, not culture, not refinement, not anything.
It’s not enough to have a “borrowed faith.” It needs to be personal, real, authentic. How about your faith? Is it real or synthetic? Give your life to Christ and you’ll have a faith of your own.