Well, you can pop the streamers and drop some confetti because today Pastor John is episode

number 900 in the podcast series and of course it also means that we have taken up 900

various themes in this podcast and of course we haven't done it alone.

We've relied on a bunch of really great and gifted guests over the years to help pull

this off.

And in the course of producing this podcast day in and day out, it is not uncommon, especially

in social media and places like Facebook to read occasional comments from people who

claim that this podcast and what we do, we're sort of overthinking the Christian life.

So that's the question for you today here in episode number 900 and so I'm daring to

create a potentially ironic episode here, but the question for you today is this, can we

overthink the Christian life and isn't life more about embracing the moment rather

than thinking through every life situation?

And what would you say are some biblical reasons, some validations for why it's important

for Christians to think carefully about various levels of ethical situations, like the ones

that we address here in the podcast?

I have three responses to that questions.

Two of them I think are basically affirmations of the concern that's being expressed and

the other one perhaps more critical, a little pushback caution.

So first, I would say yes, it is possible to overthink the Christian life and I can think

of maybe three ways to talk about that where a person might overthink the Christian life.

And of course, the word overthink obviously implies something's being done disproportionately.

And so yeah, we want to get our lives in proportion here and not do anything disproportionately.

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