Your Mind Really Matters

 Believe it or not, the development of a well-formed thought life is actually contained in the first and greatest commandment.  In Luke 10:36 (Matt. 22:37) Jesus commands us to love God with our heart, soul, strength and mind. Jesus is actually quoting the verse from Deuteronomy.

However, evangelicalism has sought to be culturally revelant and reach out to the post-modern generations, we have become over-focused on our relationship and personal experience of God.  We’ve lost the understanding of how important it is to love Him intellectually and to glorify Him through our capacity of reason. In a nutshell, in pursuit of our hearts, we’ve totally lost our heads!  

Anti-intellectualism is a serious issue in the American Church.  We must recover a more balance approach to our faith, and this ought to include the pursuit of a well-formed thought life.  Developing the skills necessary to better reason through our worldview and articulate it effectively to a lost and dying world is vital.  God gave us the capacity of reason so that we would be able to love and worship Him with our minds.  It is through ideas that we tear down falsehoods that are set up against the knowledge of God.  A well-formed thought life enables us to better understand the nature of our ideas and what consequences they may have.  

Further, and more importantly, this is the way God intended us to be. Having a well-formed thought life translates into well being because it entails thinking more accurately about ourselves, the world, and God.  Knowing Him and His will for us is the ultimate prize.

Oh…one final thing…if your mentally deranged, you’ll most likely need a different website. But feel free to poke around in the absent minded category!