The courage to think Biblically would be a step in the right direction for many and for the few who have already armed themselves with a Biblical way of thinking, even less of them also possess the courage to say out loud what they think in private.
Soft tyranny permits you to think what you like in private as long as you say what's required in public. Thoughts crimes are tolerated as long as they are left in the head. However, it only says this up front. The fact that it would label any of your thoughts criminal should be a shadow of what’s to come. It knows that muzzling mouths emaciates minds, which is their long con. The longer we all assume that we all disagree in principle without actually saying anything out loud and to the contrary in practice, the less we will have anything contrary to say if we’re ever given the chance.
In our day, it unfortunately requires bravery merely to believe God in your own head. It takes courage to keep even private conviction. But God calls us to more than mere intellect took assent. Christ refuses to be compartmentalized. He will not stay in the guest room of your head. Your theology will come out your fingertips. It is not content to go unexpressed. That is why unpracticed principles atrophy. That is why they permit you to think what you like for now, because they know if left long enough to that, you will no longer think what you once thought.
God calls us further onward and upward, and more to our purpose, outward - outside the comfortable privacy of our own intellectual living rooms and into the public wastelands of western civilization.
May God encourage more to think His thoughts and even more to have the chutzpah to say what He has said out loud and without apology.
"The problem with preachers today is that no one wants to kill them anymore!" —Steven Lawson
"The problem with preachers today is that no one wants to kill them anymore!" —Steven Lawson
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