Is it weak faith little faith great faith perfect faith or as the apostle james described dead faith faith is your only means of pleasing god not only can you know whether your faith is pleasing to him you must know you must not accept anything less than genuine faith which comes directly from the word of god as taught by the holy spirit. It seems to me that the christian faith stands on a three legged stool the first leg is sacred scripture the written expression of the word the bible jesus knew and read from and quoted and referred to and to which the writers of the new testament referred and the new testament written and assembled by the church after sometimes long . Faith is a three legged stool by patrick mcwhorter faith is your only means of pleasing god not only can you know whether your faith is pleasing to him you must know you must not accept anything less than genuine faith which comes directly from the word of god as taught by the holy spirit no other way exists to have genuine faith. Faith is a three legged stool has a life altering message that every believer needs to understand and put into practice you may never have heard that message even though it is straight from the word of god