現代教會最可悲的失敗之一就是我們過分強調用我們的心靈和情感來愛神，而失去了用我們的思想和智力來愛上帝。 我們將基督徒的生活限制在我們在教堂裡所做的活動或那些看起來「屬靈」的活動。 因此，我們的思想對「哲學和虛空的廢話(empty deceit)」敞開了，卻不知道它們是照「人間的傳統和世上粗淺的學說，而不是照着基督。」 結果，許多基督徒的思想在不知不覺中就被擄去了。
我們忘記了，或者沒有認識到，教育是一個應該成為崇拜行為的領域。 我們不能將基督教思想僅限於在我們教會的聖經研究中學習。 無論我們學習數學、生物、歷史、文學或任何其他科目，我們都應該將基督留在學習的各個領域。 由於我們的局限性，當我們在某些方面無法推理時，我們不應該將神從畫面中剔除，而應該讓我們的想法與神的話保持一致。

奧斯吉尼斯Os Guinness明智地寫道：

“以基督教的方式思考是指基督徒以一貫的基督教方式思考任何事情——以一種受上帝話語和上帝聖靈的真理塑造、指導和約束的方式。”

讓我們隨時隨刻用上帝的話語來保守我們的心智，這樣我們就不會被「世界的哲學和虛空的廢話」所俘虜； 相反，讓我們在智力活動中培養對上帝的心智。

禱告：親愛的主，請幫助我們不僅保護我們的心智免受世界的攻擊，而且也幫助我們培養對上帝的心智，以便我們在學習中看到上帝的設計和美麗！ 奉耶穌的名，阿們。

One of the saddest failures of the modern-day church is that we have overemphasized loving God with our hearts and emotions and have lost loving God with our minds and intellects. We limit the Christian life to activities we do at church or to that which seems “spiritual”. So our minds become wide open to “philosophy and empty deceit” without knowing that they are “according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.” As a result, the minds of many Christians have been taken captive without the realization of it.

We have forgotten, or have not recognized, that education is an area which should be an act of worship. We cannot restrict Christian thinking to only studying at our church Bible studies. Whether we are studying mathematics, biology, history, literature, or any other subject, we should keep Christ in all areas of learning. Due to our limitations, when we cannot reason through some area, instead of removing God from the picture, we should submit our thinking to be consistent with God’s words.

Os Guinness wisely writes that:

“Thinking Christianly is thinking by Christians about anything and everything in a consistently Christian way -in a manner that is shaped, directed, and restrained by the truth of God’s Word and God’s Spirit.”

Let us guard our minds 24*7 by the Word of God so that we won’t be taken captive by the world’s philosophies and empty deceit; instead let us develop a mind for God in our intellectual endeavors.

Prayer: Dear Lord, please help us not only to guard our minds from attacks of the world but also to develop a mind for God so that we will see God’s design and beauty throughout our learning! In Jesus name, Amen.