First Things First: Don't Lose Your Mind

Do you ever think about your faith? Do you ever question WHY you believe what you believe? If not, why not?

Pastor Joe speaks about loving God with all our MIND. Do we believe the Bible because we’ve read it, and studied it, and applied Christ’s teaching to our lives, or do we believe what we believe because we grew up in church with Christian parents and simply decided to believe whatever our parents and the pastor told us?

It is crucial, if we are to love God with our minds, that we know Scripture. It is even MORE crucial that we LIVE SCRIPTURALLY. That we LIVE the commandments of Jesus. If we will not live Christ’s commandments, there is no way that we will ever be able to convince another soul that Jesus is our only HOPE. If they can’t see us living our faith, there is no reason for them to believe us when we say that Jesus died for our sins, or that God wants us to live in eternity with Him. They won’t even believe us when we say that God exists.

We are encouraged to read the Bible, and in particular the words of Christ, and to use the minds that God has given us to understand how to live, and to put our understanding into practice.