Stinkin Group Thinkin

Remember those old cliché arguments?

The ones where you begged your parents for something and defended your cause by describing how everyone you know already has that thing or gets to do that thing…

Your parents shot back with: “Oh, everybody’s doing that, huh? I suppose if everybody jumped off a bridge, you’d do it too?”

This line of reasoning never inspired me as a kid.

It didn’t lift my spirits, cause me to dream bigger, or envision new possibilities.

These days, however, I’m feeling pretty inspired by it (not because my daughter wants to watch Hannah Montana and tells me how all her friends get to watch it).

I’m becoming more and more aware that the herd doesn’t always move in the right direction.

I’ve come to realize: “group think” often stinks.

The Bible says “Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking.” (Romans 12.2 NCV)

We don’t need more stinkin group thinkin.

We need to be changed within; we need a new way of thinking.

I love this reminder God gave to Isaiah during a particularly difficult time…

The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said, “Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do, and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.” (Isaiah 8.11, 12)

Through Jesus, we’ve been made new.

We’re a new creation—the old is gone and the new has come…

This includes our minds, our thinking.

We have a new mind—the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2.16, Philippians 2.5).

http://made-new.com/