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Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service,” writes John Stott. “If we do not use the mind which God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality.” While Christians have had a heritage of rigorous scholarship and careful thinking, some circles still view the intellect with suspicion or even as contradictory to Christian faith. Many non-Christians are quick to...

themes of Scripture. God as creator, God as revealer, God as redeemer, God as judge—this biblical portrait provided a foundational rationale for using the mind as a gift from God in faithful service to God. On that basis, Stott then explored the manifold ways in which diligent thinking could function as a fully contributing part of Christian life—in worship, belief, holiness, guidance, evangelism and ministry. Stott brought his appeal to a close by once again drawing on Scripture to show how the
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