Thinking Christianly

In my apologetics class, I have been assigning the homework of finding news stories and relating our world view to the stories. The idea is that if we can talk about the news at work we can do apologetics.

To my surprise, most of the folks have real trouble with this. As one honest class member said, "We don't think this way. We have God stuff, bad stuff and then the news." In other words, it is common for Christians to think of most stuff with a "neutral" mind. This is not good.

For example, I mentioned the Michael J. Fox ads on stem cell research. Most had heard of the ads and were put off by them because they knew that stem cell research killed living embryos. Still, few had considered that Michael J. Fox's reasoning was simply a form of "ends justify the means." Christians should say, "God justifys the means, not the ends." They should be able to extrapolate the "ends" philosophy into other areas as well. (For example, Hitler's experiments on Jews was just this same reasoning.)

Instead, they have been trained to spot things God doesn't like, but not explain why. They haven't been trained to think God's thoughts after him. That is what we need to do.

So, look at the news. As you do, ask what God thinks and most importantly, why He thinks as He does. Try it!