Weekly insights from Chuck Colson and great saints of the past and present

There is no substitute for renewing our minds if we would serve Christ fully in this world.

“Key to growing in Christ is not only subduing our natural appetite but beginning to think like Christ, to see the world as God sees it, by the renewing of our minds. A renewed mind in Christ allows us to direct our desires more in accordance with reason…We also become discerning about the things we see in the culture around us, exploding the false myths that we are urged to live by. This means developing a view of the world formed by the Bible. Remember, as we have discussed, Christianity is a worldview.”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith

“Our mind is renewed by the practice of wisdom and reflection on the Word of God and the spiritual understanding of his law. The more one reads the Scriptures daily and the greater one’s understanding is, the more one is renewed always and every day. I doubt whether a mind which is laze toward the holy Scriptures and the exercise of spiritual knowledge can be renewed at all.”
-Origen, Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans

“There is an implied contrast between the spirit of our mind and the divine and heavenly Spirit, who begets in us another and new mind. How much there is in us that is sound or uncorrupted may be easily gathered from this, which enjoins us to correct chiefly the reason or mind, in which there seems to be nothing but the virtuous and laudable. We may explain it thus, ‘Put on the new man, which is simply being renewed in the spirit, or inwardly. And be totally renewed, beginning with the mind…’”
-John Calvin, Commentary on Ephesians

“To construct Christian world views and to act for Christ in daily existence on the basis of these world views is a high calling. History shows two things about such a calling: that by God’s grace it can be done, but also that it is never an easy task.”
- Mark Noll, “Christian World Views and Some Lessons of History”

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
-Romans 12:2

For more insight to this subject, get the book, Why You Think the Way You Do, by Glenn Sunshine, from our online store.

Or read the article, “The Importance of Worldview Training,” by Chuck Edwards.