A Philosophical Worldview
i was reading for philosophy yesterday and came to a stunning conclusion… i am pretty much brain dead. how often is it that i think past the surface about anything that really matters in my life? the book stated that all Christians need to be both spiritually regenerate and also intellectually engaged in our faith. “Our churches are unfortunately overlypopulated with people whose minds, as Christians, are going to waste… they may be spiritually regenerate, but their minds have not been converted; they still think like nonbelievers. Despite their Christian commitment, they remain largely empty selves. What is an empty self? An empty self is a person who is passive, sensate, busy and hurried, incapable of developing an interior life. Such a person is inordinately individualistic, infantile and narcissistic”.
unfortunately this reminds me a lot of myself. i do not want to be this type of Christian. i want to be a believer who is able to confront the secularism that is drowning our faith with questions that many of us cannot answer. i want to answer those questions and change the impact that Jesus has on this culture. i want my church to raise believers who follow Christ with more than just their outside. i want to train people to be who will be able to share Jesus in a compelling and real way. i am reading C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity right now and i want to be able to speak like he does. i no longer am satisfied to just know the broad concepts of my faith… it is time to dig deeper. its time to create for myself a Christ centered worldview that i know about and can explain with confidence. i am finally ready.
