John Stott wraps up Your Mind Matters with “Acting on Our Knowledge.” He begins by pointing out that we avoid the swing from anti-intellectualism to hyper-intellectualism, by remembering "just one thing: God never intends knowledge to be an end in itself but always to be means to some other end." As a corollary to the mind and biblical knowledge being essential to the six spheres of Christian living, see Your Mind Matters 3: The Mind in Christian Life, Stott highlights the truth that: "the acquisition of … [Read more...] about Your Mind Matters 4: Acting on Our Knowledge
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Your Mind Matters 3: The Mind in Christian Life
We continue our ESN Book Club discussion of John Stott's Your Mind Matters with chapter 3, "The Mind in Christian Life." Stott "examines six spheres of Christian living, each of which is impossible without the proper use of the mind," namely: Christian worship Christian faith Christian holiness Christian guidance Christian evangelism Christian ministry We could discuss all of these if we had time, but two items on this list which particularly struck me were holiness and guidance. … [Read more...] about Your Mind Matters 3: The Mind in Christian Life
Your Mind Matters 2: Why Use Our Minds?
In the section entitled thinking God's thoughts, John Stott argues Psalm 19:1-4 and Romans 1:18-21 refer to God's self-revelation through the created order. Although it is a proclamation without speech, a voice without words, yet as a result of it all men to some degree "know God." This assumed ability of man to read what God has written in the universe is extremely important. All scientific research depends upon it, upon a correspondence between the character of what is being investigated and the mind of the … [Read more...] about Your Mind Matters 2: Why Use Our Minds?
Your Mind Matters 1: Mindless Christianity
This week starts our first ESN Book Club. Over the next four weeks, Tom and I will be leading our discussion of John Stott's classic, Your Mind Matters. If you don't have a copy of the book, our introduction to the ESN Book Club includes several options where you can buy it. This week, we'll be discussing the Mark Noll's foreword and chapter one, "Mindless Christianity," which are available as free PDF downloads from InterVarsity Press. Here's how this will work: Tom and I will alternate with a post about the book … [Read more...] about Your Mind Matters 1: Mindless Christianity
ESN Book Club: Your Mind Matters (Updated)
Update: To give you more time to order and start reading the book, we've moved back the dates of the book club by a week. The updated dates are all below. (And, if you're worried you still won't have time, chapter one is very short, and we'll be posting passages to discuss.) Starting next week June 9, we're going to try something new here at the ESN blog: an online book club! We've chosen John Stott's classic, Your Mind Matters, for our experiment, both because it is a must read for ESN members and because it is very … [Read more...] about ESN Book Club: Your Mind Matters (Updated)