Mossy’s Blog

From the liner notes on Mark’s album “Eye of the Storm”:

If one delves more deeply into matters undergirding. . .belief, it can serve to strengthen that belief. If Christianity is truth, we should dig more deeply in matters relating to that truth, such as history, philosophy, archaeology, or dealing with evolution.  We shouldn’t go around saying things that resemble greeting card slogans and expect the roots of our faith to grow very deep.  If we are basing our faith on our own feelings about God, or our perceptions on the way things seem to be to us, and our message to the world becomes, “well, Jesus changed my life”, then I believe our Christianity is incomplete and brought to the same level for caricatured media competition as every other existentialist theist.  If our faith doesn’t involve our mental processes as well as our hearts, then we aren’t going to have anything to say to people because whatever we say will be disconnected from objectivity, and will be perceived as mere opinion.

I just love that line, “We shouldn’t go around saying things that resemble greeting card slogans and expect the roots of our faith to grow very deep.”  It reminds me of Paul Washer’s statement that most Christians today get their theology from the backs of tee shirts.

I think Mark had it right, but I would clarify just a little.  Our faith must involve our mental processes because that is where we interpret Scripture.  And both our minds and hearts – corrupted by sin – have the power of deceiving us, so we must submit both to the truth of the word of God.