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Applying “Don’t Waste Your Mind”
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The art for “Don’t Waste Your Mind” was created by Zak Parsons.
Yesterday Jeff Purswell taught us on what it is to “love the Lord your God…with all your mind.”
You can download the message or listen online here.
As you seek to apply the message, here are some questions, prepared by pastor Brian Chesemore, to consider either on your own or in a small group setting:
1. In Jeff’s message, “Don’t Waste Your Mind,” he makes clear how Paul, armed with the gospel, preaches to tear down vain human reasonings that oppose the truth of God. The gospel engages in spiritual warfare as it sets captives free from the thinking that keeps them in their sin. What wrong ideas did you formerly embrace until they were destroyed by the gospel upon your conversion?
2. In his 1st point, “The Importance of Thinking”, Jeff took us to Gen. 1:26-28 to show how mankind alone is patterned after the image of God. Therefore, as men and women, we wake each morning able to think! How can you honor God by giving thought to the call he’s placed on you? Whether a homemaker or student or out in the workforce, in what ways has God positioned you to regularly consider how to care for his creation, subdue it, improve life, and make this earth more productive?
3. Jeff listed three ways we hinder thinking: we discourage it because of poor past experience or fear of pride, we secularize it by keeping it off the list of what is sacred to God (like our devotions, and singing, and serving), and we avoid thinking because of the effort it requires. Where do you see these errors hindering your thinking?
4. Read Mark 12:28-31. In light of this passage and its foundation in Deut. 6:4-5, loving God means we give constant attention to his word. How are you currently pursuing God’s Word? What would need to change in order for your mind to be characterized as one “immersed in Scripture”?
5. Because of God’s infinite knowledge and His revelation of certain knowledge, we can know truly those things he has revealed. How can you seize this season to develop your mind and enlarge your soul by pursuing learning for God’s Glory? What books, conversations, and tasks, should you engage in to enlarge your thoughts and better reflect his image in your thinking?
6. How are you embracing and transmitting the knowledge and glory of the gospel to a younger generation?
This series has been wonderful as I’ve obtained enlightenment each week on what God doesn’t want me to waste and how to apply it.
This week I was captivated by Jeff and his passion which was clear and this truly was, it seems, a topic God has placed in his care to share with others.
Glory to God.
By Jody Belknap on 08/18/2008Is there a way to purchase this specific piece of art so that I can hang it in the 3rd grade classroom at CLS?
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