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For the majority of people who call themselves the body of Christ, it would be an understatement to say that we do not love Christ with all our minds. The whole of our mind-loving, usually consists of a severely fragmented head knowledge about the basics of salvation, along with several dogmatic stances regarding some very difficult passage of scripture that we use to categorize each other into whichever Christian sect is the most conducive to our lifestyle. You don't have to search very far to find evidence that as a whole the Christian community is not a hub of intellectualism. For many non-Christians, Christian beliefs, virtues, and doctrine are considered at best a sentimental antiquity from days gone by, at worst a stumbling block to progress. But where should the blame lie? Christians have busily occupied themselves with potluck dinners, re-writing church constitutions, marketing Jesus, and rallying against the unsaved, and have left non-believers to answer difficult questions, and make the hard decisions for us. We have moved ourselves out of the scientific community, out of the entertainment industry, out of political arenas, and out of the thinking machine in general, in exchan
Christianity and Christian ideals are ridiculed by the media, and have become the laughing stocks of the intellectuals. But, I would venture to say that we are at fault; we made the decision to separate our intellect from our love of God. We have failed in this arena not because Christianity falls short intellectually, but because we have been too complacent to seek and prove Biblical thinking in our own lives. We Christians, who are supposed to be winning multitudes for Christ by offering "truth and light," are stereotyped by ignorance and fear in our own culture. So what has happened? Has God been found to be lacking? Does he not possess the answer to our ultimate questions, or could it be that the answers lie outside the parameters of what is allowable through the interpretation of scripture? No, it has been intellectually dormant Christians that have reduced almighty God to little more than an afterthought for the majority of civilization. I would tell the Christian church to lose their trite billboards competing to have the wittiest quote of the week, and get rid of our cliche ridden jargon that can only further complicate very complex theologies that need to be understood. Instead, we must commit our minds to pursuing holiness and a deeper love for Christ. In Matthew 22:37-38, Christ, in an
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