Christian Thinking

Christian thinking is thinking the way God would think so that we will know what God would have us do.

Christian thinking is having the mind of Christ so that we will know what Jesus would do.

Christian thinking is taking “every thought captive and making it obedient to Jesus.”

Christian thinking is all about thinking the right things in order to do the right things.

Thinking is the application of knowledge to a given situation.

Christian thinking is the application of our knowledge of God to a given situation.

· Joshua 1:18
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

· Ps 119 : 11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

· Ps 1: 1 Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.

· 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

· 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

Christian thinking is taking “every thought captive and making it obedient to Jesus.”

· 2Cor 10:5
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Thinking apart from the word of God will always lead to deception!

· 2 Tim: 10You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

· Vs 16’s power comes from vs 15!

* Col 3:16 …Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly (Why read vs1-15) as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord