Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Yeah, that was Jesus, what about me?

We have identified four critical elements which enabled Jesus to think like Jesus: His foundation was clear, He focused on God's will, He filtered every everything prior to a decision, and He acted in faith. We know He was fully man, but we cannot deny the fact that He was also fully God. Did Jesus have an unfair advantage? If He displayed these characteristics with some evidence of struggle, i.e. The Temptation in the wilderness (Matt 4:1-11) and The Garden of Gethsemane (Matt 26:39-44), is it realistic to believe that we can actually think like Jesus?

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Do I really think like Jesus?

In the book Think Like Jesus, George Barna indicates that after years of listening to sermons, attending classes, and participating in Bible study groups, he was not prepared to filter out trash and embrace only biblical wisdom. I'm curious to know how many individuals find themselves in a similar position today.