Christian Challenge

3% of all born again believers in North America believe that there is an absolute truth. 3%.
And many of you who read this will be scratching your heads going, yah, so what's the big deal. Because many of you who read this will be reading in a postmodern frame of mind.

Harry Blamires wrote in 1960, "There is no Christian mind." His warnings of the what the result of this would be have been largely ignored. Because if only 3% of the people who are Christian believe in absolutes then it is true that there really is no Christian mind in the 21st century, at least in North America.

If there was a Christian mind, a lot of things would look very different in our culture. Especially the Christians. Christians would look unique and distinct, truly representing the fact that they are set apart for God's business instead of being wrapped up in the entertainment business, or the fashion business, or Big business. Christians would be showing a better way, "a most excellent way" (1Cor 12:31) to live.

If there was a Christian mind, Christians would realize that we have fallen to worshipping two gods; the God of heaven and earth, and the god of intellectual folly. The wisdom of the world says opinions are truths. The wisdom of Christ says He is the truth. If we worship Christ we accept Him and His truths. If we worship the wisdom of the world we accept other "truths".

Jesus said we cannot serve both God and money. (Luke 16:13) You can't serve two gods.
Jesus also said that if we are not with Him, we are against Him. (Luke 11:23). It logically follows that you can't serve two truths, that you either have to be with Jesus' truth or you are against Him.

If we want to see a redevelopment of the Christian mind we need to see these connections. And it's not a matter of brilliance. It's just logical. It's even fairly simple. It's a matter of simply believing that Jesus is THE way THE truth and THE life. In the Christian mind, in the Christian life, there can be no other.