CCT: March 28. 2007

March 28th, 2007
  • Love Your God With All Your Mind
    • Chapter 1
    • How We Lost the Christian Mind and Why We Must Recover it
  • 3 symptoms of secularism
    1. Knowledge is only found in a test tube
      • We can only learn from science
    2. Religion is relegated to the back of the intellectual bus
      • morality and religion are passe
      • faith is a private matter
    3. The speechwriter is replaced by the makeup man
      • form, rules are disregarded
      • style and appearance are more important than character
  • 3 centers of influence in our culture
    1. University
    2. Media
    3. Government
  • 3 challenges facing the church
    1. The church is safe and sound on its own reservation
    2. The church is surviving, but in a state of perpetual adolescence
    3. The church is advancing, but is building houses on sand
      • New Christians live the same as Non Christians
  • Church History
    1. Puritans were smart, intellectual people
      1. Christianity became focused on
        1. Immediate personal conversion
        2. Emotional Sermons
    2. Secular Study of the Bible
      1. Christians responded
        1. Suspicious of intellectual and scholarship
        2. Withdrew from intellectual culture
    3. Where are we today?
      1. Secular society has welcomed the trojan horse of anti-intellectualism into its walls
  • 3 symptoms of anti-intellectualism in evangelicalism
    1. Reason-less faith
    2. Separation of the secular and sacred
    3. A stifled witness

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