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Are You Educated Beyond Your Obedience?

March 30, 2009


Chris James (duodigetst.blogspot.com) recently wrote about the problem many Christians have of being educated beyond their obedience:

"The sadly funny thing is we've somehow become convinced that the best way to follow Jesus is to learn something new about God, when in fact, we'd be far better served to act upon one thing we have already "learned." You might say that the almost ignorant activists make better disciples than the learned philosophizers. And this is an indictment of me, as it is likely to be of you - who derive some pleasure from reading a blog about Jesus. :)"

Read the whole post here.

This is reminiscent of James 1:22-25

What can we do to avoid being over educated, but disobedient? What programmatic or structural changes can we make to help the Church avoid this pitfall?