Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling

In my Christian Worldview class, we are currently reading Habits of the Mind by James W. Sire, and the subtitle is “Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling.” Today at CRIBS we discussed the elephant in the room that is politics in the church, and I feel that we had a good discussion. At the end of the discussion, the adult leaders all made the same point that we are called to life of intelligence. We are called to always learn so that we aren’t caught unawares by whatever is happening around us. We have to make informed decisions in everything we do, and we have to have the ability to back up our decisions with sound reasoning and logic. We also have to be able to discuss things in a loving and peaceful manner. And that is the hardest thing we are called to do. Too often we let emotions take control and we says things that we shouldn’t, or we act in a manner that is incongruent with how we are called to act. Even though it’s hard, we should never forget to put God first. By putting our hearts after His, we can be confident in His ability to use us as He will. We’ll act in a way that honors and glorifies Him, and we’ll be able to match our words to our actions.