Say no to ignorance
Ignorance is overcome by information. Information comes from the community of people and ideas whom we give access to our brains. Your mind is being shaped by the community you let in. In our worship yesterday, I noticed that Paul exhorts his little church to ‘no longer walk as the Gentiles do.’ Because of ignorance and hardness of heart they are futile, darkened, and alienated.
Ignorance is overcome by information. I submit that we need to have a community of authors who regularly stretch our worldview. How many minutes a week/month do you give to thinking deeply about who God is and your relationship to Him? Here are 10 suggestions to deepen your thinking:
not the way its supposed to be Cornelius Plantinga
The mission of God Chris Wright
Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God Gordon Fee
The Unity of the Bible Daniel Fuller
The Gospel of the Kingdom by George Ladd
The Incomparable Christ by John Stott
Creation Regained by Albert Wolters
Liturgical Theology by Simon Chan
Renewal as a way of life by Richard Lovelace
In My Place Condemned He Stood by J.I. Packer and Mark Dever
Put one on your Christmas list. Find a friend and read it together. Gather a group of people to talk about it for 4 weeks. Take a deeper step into your Christian worldview and redeemed mind. ‘so that you may no longer walk as the Gentiles do.”
November 2, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
I’m reading both the Plantinga book and a different book by Lovelace this month for the CS Lewis Institute fellows program. Good stuff. A favorite of mine is a short book by AW Tozer called Knowledge of the Holy. Read it as a devotion covering different attributes of God and how they work together. Awesome (which I think is the most oft used word in and around Restoration folks…). 🙂
November 3, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
awesome.
November 3, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
David — Great to see you bringing out the heavy lumber! I don’t usually read the same book twice, but John Piper’s Desiring God is one that I never get tired of.
November 4, 2009 @ 9:57 am
Mention the words “liturgical theology” and I have to bring up Alexander Schemann, with whom I am somewhat obsessed (so on that account, mention “the sky is blue” and I’ll also bring up Schmemann). Most widely available is his “For the Life of the World,” but I particularly like “Celebration of Faith: I Believe…” Not all is directly applicable (he’s Eastern Orthodox), but oh to have a worldview like his…