Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center.

I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers, Breakpoint.

I'm joined here by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint,

and we are answering your questions.

These were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses,

articles, and the Colson Fellows program. If you've got a question for us, just send us an email

at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, I was thinking about getting a bit more

creative with that intro, you know, talking about how we're here to answer your worldview

questions.

And then the first question today kind of made me think twice about how that term gets perceived.

This person writes in, I've been noticing that Christians are using three main phrases to talk about

how to frame thinking. Some say thinking biblically. Others say thinking critically,

and others say thinking from a Christian worldview. Can you give me some understanding on the

finer points of distinction between these three? I believe there's a difference basing ideas

on a biblical understanding, a logical understanding, and a Christian traditional

understanding. But I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.

Well, I don't know that anyone's actually kind of coined the dictionaries on these.

You know, there's kind of an official distinction.

But I think all of the phrases bring up something pretty important.

I am grateful for a good definition of thinking biblically that I received in seminary.

So the definition is thinking biblically implies two things.

Number one is thinking what's in the Bible. In other words, having a level of

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