Opus 2017-210: Thinking Is Out of Style

In one of his sermons, Alistair Begg was making the point that evangelicals don’t think.  No problem.  I have seen a lot of evidence for that.  My only caveat would be that all who call themselves evangelicals are not.

My real problem is that I think the criticism needs to extend a little further.  He should have pointed out that Americans don’t think, at least the modern public school product doesn’t.  Thinking is work.  Thinking has consequences.  If someone tells you something really silly and you tell them it is silly, they may reject you and get hostile, and we would not want that, would we.

We as believers have allowed ourselves to become like our culture in this.  As followers of Jesus we are called to read, meditate, think, listen and apply what we find.  Remember that knowledge, wisdom and discernment are all gifts of the Spirit.  They have been rejected by modern Christians and Americans.  It is much easier to let the talking heads and published gurus do our thinking for us.

That needs to change.

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