Is Christianity essentially individualistic or social? Is following Jesus personal or communal? Progressives can’t decide.
Tag: discipleship
God’s demonstration of love: “While we were still weak…Christ died for the ungodly” (Rom. 5: 6). The character of love is revealed in the midst of weakness. • False love—as narcissism—preys on weakness rather than protecting it. • False love—as self-loathing—points out weakness rather than providing for it. • False love—as fear—hides from weakness rather than […]
What is the “social construction” of reality? Is everything just relative and subjective? Is everything just made up? Or could the social construction of reality have something to do with being made in God’s image? This is what I’m thinking about as I finish up Lisa Feldman Barrett’s new book, Seven and a […]
Why do we experience culture shock? Why do people process the same event so differently? Why is code-switching so exhausting? It’s because different people, especially from different cultures, have different minds—and shifting between them is taxing. This is the main point of Lisa Feldman Barrett’s 6th lesson. I’m continuing with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a […]
What does it really mean to say that humans are social beings? How does it really affect us that we are embedded in our relationship? And what does this mean for discipleship? I’m continuing with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (I’m working through chapters as part of the […]
Why are human infants so helpless compared to other mammal? Is it because of our big brains? Kind of yes. And the reasons are essential for thinking about discipleship. I’m continuing with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (I’ll be going through one lesson a week building up […]
Peter, like many of us, had right information understood the wrong way. I’m not talking about head vs. heart knowledge. I’m talk about having our mind set on human ways instead of God’s ways. Lent is the time to transform what we think to be right knowledge into the right way of living (because we […]
Discipleship in the West is Broken. More INFORMATION doesn’t mean we have more KNOWLEDGE. And more knowledge doesn’t mean we have grown in WISDOM. Too many Christians in the West think that information leads to wisdom. But it doesn’t work that way. We have TOO MANY Christians reveling in their information and knowledge (about the […]
And the other thing we mostly forget. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up […]