{"id":1040,"date":"2002-01-27T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-27T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/january-qthinking-inside-the-boxq\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T06:18:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T06:18:55","slug":"january-qthinking-inside-the-boxq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/january-qthinking-inside-the-boxq\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Inside The Box"},"content":{"rendered":"
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G .K. Chesterton wrote, \u201cThe mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet\u2019s; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic\u2019s.\u201d<\/span>1<\/sup> It seems we have no shortage of \u201cvisionaries\u201d and \u201coriginal thinkers,\u201d but fewer and fewer of them seem to be able to find their way back home!\u00a0\u00a0 It is a day of point and click exegesis, word-searched information, downloaded knowledge and back-lit preaching.\u00a0 A.T. Pierson told of a country church member commenting on the new pastor: \u201cWell, I\u2019ll tell yer how it is.\u00a0 He\u2019s de best man I ebber seed to tak\u2019 de Bible apart, but he dunno how to put it togedder agin.\u201d<\/span>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We have heard the expression, \u201cthinking in (or out of) the box\u201d for quite a while now.\u00a0 I think it is an attempt to describe one who can think only within set parameters,\u00a0 as opposed to one who can think beyond those parameters.\u00a0 In Christian circles it is frequently applied to stuffy people who will not accept new ideas or think in any way except what has been done in the past.\u00a0 On the surface, most of us would agree with the criticism, as A.W. Tozer wrote, \u201cThe stodgy pedestrian mind does no credit to Christianity.\u201d3<\/sup> But I am not convinced that that\u2019s all there is to the expression of thinking in (or out of) the box.<\/p>\n

Does anyone still doubt that the world has lost its moorings when it comes to thinking and normality?\u00a0 For them, thinking out of the box means the absence of absolutes, the freedom for unlimited self-expression, or as one popular restaurant advertises, \u201cNo rules, just right.\u201d\u00a0 It means living in a world where wild imagination is normal and the old normal is boring.\u00a0 In that world, biblical Christianity has no place.\u00a0 One online writer criticizes Christianity for holding too strictly to the Bible :<\/p>\n

This is what happens when people take the stories their religions offer a bit too literally. . . In that paradigm, if you subscribe to the right story and follow the rules, all you have to do is hang in there and wait for the ending, and you\u2019ll be saved.\u00a0 Best of all, the real quandaries of human existence\u2014questions such as where do we come from, what is the right way to live, and where do we go when we die\u2014are all preordained.\u00a0 A closed book. . . Thank[fully], we now have a way out of the story: We can write our own endings.\u201d4<\/sup><\/p>\n

As the world criticizes us for thinking biblically, we must not shy away from accusations that we do not think broadly enough.\u00a0 We must not prefer the company of broad worldly thinking to plain biblical thinking.\u00a0 In some instances I would agree that Christians ought to broaden their thinking, but in many ways people think worldly and simply call it broad. I am here advocating that a disagreement which is conservative is not necessarily blind.\u00a0 There may be good reasons for it.<\/p>\n

Too often, \u201cthinking inside the box\u201d is a caricature of more conservative thinking that has become annoying or even embarrassing in our day and age.\u00a0 Here are a few of those caricatures of thinking which get labeled \u201cin the box.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thinking that is Stagnant<\/strong><\/h3>\n

We have all heard the explanations of how corporations go through a cycle from being new and enthusiastic to old and stagnant.\u00a0 This can be true of corporations and churches.\u00a0 We all fear crossing that line of old age where our only topics of conversation are stories that everyone has already heard a thousand times.\u00a0 But the reaction to this can be as bad and worse.\u00a0 An immature answer is to disregard everything that is said.\u00a0 This is often done with church.\u00a0 As Chesterton said, \u201cThe vice of the modern notion of mental progress is that it is always something concerned with the breaking of bonds, the effacing of boundaries, the casting away of dogmas.\u00a0 But if there be such a thing as mental growth, it must mean the growth into more and more definite convictions, into more and more dogmas.\u00a0 The human brain is a machine for coming to conclusions; if it cannot come to conclusions it is rusty.\u201d5<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Thinking that is Irrelevant<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Besides the things that are old and boring, many things can seem to be worthless because they don\u2019t \u201cwork\u201d as well as they used to.\u00a0 Business lives and dies with sales methodology and they must work or the product won\u2019t sell.\u00a0 Commercials have become what I call the obvious lie:\u00a0 we know it can\u2019t really be that way but we excuse it because we know it\u2019s only a commercial.\u00a0 The add is \u201ctruthful\u201d if it sells the product.\u00a0 Reality is of little consequence.<\/p>\n

Irrelevance, then, is what is non-pragmatic.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t get the job done, why keep it?\u00a0 Albert Einstein called the modern age one of perfected means and confused ends.6<\/sup> R.C. Sproul wrote, \u201cThe Christian rejects the spirit of pragmatism.\u00a0 He lives in terms of long-term goals.\u00a0 He eschews the expedient.\u00a0 He stores up treasure in heaven.\u00a0 He is willing to wait for the hour of God.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Thinking that is Negative<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I have known truly negative people and they are hard to be around.\u00a0 Some people don\u2019t know there is another end to the magnet.\u00a0 But other people are as afraid of a negative as this generation is of the law of non-contradiction.\u00a0 The fact is, two opposites cannot both be true, and for every positive there is its opposite which is negative.\u00a0 If the positive is true, the negative can\u2019t be.\u00a0 But if the negative is true, the positive can\u2019t be.\u00a0 \u201cWoe unto them that call evil good, and good evil\u201d (Isa 5:20).\u00a0 T.S. Eliot said, \u201cIncumbent upon all Christians is the duty of maintaining consciously certain standards and criteria of criticism over and above those applied by the rest of the world.\u201d8 <\/sup>Even if that is in a different box!<\/p>\n

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Thinking that is Pietistic<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cPious\u201d has become one of those Christian swear words like legalistic, traditional, progressive, controlling, liberal, etc. that we use on someone we don\u2019t want to talk to.\u00a0 Too often, even Christians shy away from what seems too holy or pious. \u00a0We are more used to the world\u2019s standards than God\u2019s.\u00a0 Francis Schaeffer said, \u201cAncestral man has entered his own head, and he has been adapting ever since to what he finds there.\u201d9<\/sup> Piety is too narrow of a box for this generation. But God invites man to a far different perspective!\u00a0Though no Christian who fancies his thinking to be \u201cout of the box\u201d would ever see his thinking as \u201cunbiblical,\u201d my fear is that that is what has happened and far too often.\u00a0 When we don\u2019t take the negative seriously enough, we forget that it is different than the positive.\u00a0 The anti-biblical, with time, can seem only non-biblical.\u00a0 And then the non-biblical, with more time, can seem only preferential.\u00a0 Then the preferential becomes preferable.<\/p>\n

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An Alternative<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Corinthian church had gotten a little too far \u201cout of the box\u201d for the Apostle Paul.\u00a0 Their thinking had become too much like the world around them and Paul reels them back into the parameters of a biblical perspective.\u00a0 In 1 Corinthians 4:6 he told them that he had written to them so that they wouldn\u2019t think beyond what is written<\/em>.\u00a0 This was their problem with preferring one above another, and also their problem in every other area.<\/p>\n

What is written <\/em>means more than simply what Paul has already said to them.\u00a0 They are not to think ?per (above, beyond<\/em>) gegraptai (what is written)<\/em>.\u00a0 This expression is used throughout this book and many other New Testament books to introduce an Old Testament quotation. For example:\u00a0 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise<\/em> (1:19).\u00a0 This is the exact same form of the verb as Paul uses in 4:6.\u00a0 They were not to go above or beyond what they Scripture says.\u00a0 G.G. Findlay adds, \u201cIt was a Rabbinical adage\u2014as much as to say, Keep to the rule of Scripture, Not a step beyond the written word<\/em>.\u201d10<\/sup><\/p>\n

Regardless of how the world sees us, God says our reward is from gold, silver and precious stones, not wood, hay and stubble; our message is the foolishness of God, not the wisdom of this world; our preaching is with demonstration of Holy Spirit power, not enticing words of man\u2019s wisdom; and our foundation is Christ alone, no other foundation can be laid.\u00a0 In chapter 4, Paul chided them for remaining spectators of the real Christian life, while he had become a \u201cspectacle\u201d to the world.<\/p>\n

I think Paul could have said These things I have written that you may learn not to think outside the Box of Scripture.<\/em> Though we don\u2019t like to think we do, we are probably not more adept at knowing the parameters than the Corinthians who also had the Apostle\u2019s presence to guide them!<\/p>\n

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And So . . .<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A.W. Tozer, who had a way of bringing our thoughts down to reality, wrote, \u201cWhatever keeps me from the Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.\u00a0 Whatever engages my attention when I should be meditating on God and things eternal does injury to my soul.\u00a0 Let the cares of life crowd out the Scriptures from my mind and I have suffered loss where I can least afford it.\u00a0 Let me accept anything else instead of the Scriptures and I have been cheated and robbed to my eternal confusion.\u201d11<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1.\u00a0 G.K. Chesterton, What\u2019s Wrong With The World <\/em>(San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1994) 92.<\/address>\n
2. A.T. Pierson, Pulpit Legends <\/em>(Chattanooga: AMG, 1994) xii.<\/address>\n
3. A.W. Tozer, Born After Midnight <\/em>(Harrisburg: Christian Publications, 1959) 95.<\/address>\n
4. Douglas Rushkoff, \u201cPlaying God,\u201d Yahoo Internet Life, Dec. 2000, p. 101.<\/address>\n
5. G.K. Chesterton, Heretics <\/em>(Nashville: Nelson, 2000) 151.<\/address>\n
6. Quoted by Phillips & Okholm, Christian Apologetics in a Postmodern World<\/em> (Downer\u2019s Grove: IVP, 1995) 25.<\/address>\n
7. R.C. Sproul, The Mystery of the Holy Spirit <\/em>(Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1990) 172.<\/address>\n
8. Quoted by Bruce Lockerbie, Dismissing God <\/em>(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998) 20.<\/address>\n
9. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality <\/em>(Wheaton: Tyndale, 1971) 112.<\/address>\n
10. G.G. Findlay, Expositor\u2019s Greek New Testament<\/em>, W.R. Nicoll, ed (Grand Rapids: Eerdman\u2019s, 1970) 800.<\/address>\n
11. A.W. Tozer, Worship and Entertainment <\/em> (Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications, 1997) 42.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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