Thinking with a Discerning Mind
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In a pagan society that suppresses the truth, Christians must have minds that are transformed by the Holy Spirit and informed by the Word of God. Today, Peter Jones describes the kind of discernment that should set Christians apart.
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| 0:00.0 | There are only two ways of thinking. |
| 0:01.7 | There's the transformed mind that has to be transformed because of sin, |
| 0:05.3 | and then understands who God is and worships and serves him. |
| 0:09.6 | And then there's the undersurning mind that makes nature God |
| 0:13.2 | and serves creation and builds a worldview of one's own. |
| 0:23.0 | The Apostle Paul in Romans 122 calls us to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. |
| 0:30.1 | That verse is where the name of this outreach comes from. |
| 0:33.2 | And in truth, there are only two minds, the transformed mind of Romans 12 |
| 0:38.5 | or the conformed undersurning mind of Romans 1. |
| 0:43.2 | This is the Friday edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:49.0 | Peter Jones has been helping us think through what he calls one ism and two ism. |
| 0:54.6 | This framework has helped me see the unifying era of all worldly thinking. |
| 1:00.0 | And worldviews. |
| 1:01.4 | You can request your own copy with a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org. |
| 1:06.0 | Is today is the final day that we're offering this resource. |
| 1:10.0 | Today, Peter Jones focuses on what the mind of Romans 12 looks like |
| 1:15.2 | and how it differs from the pagan thinking of our day. |
| 1:18.9 | Here's Dr. Jones. |
| 1:23.1 | Well, the second thing I think that the Apostle Paul wants Christians to bring |
| 1:27.3 | to a pagan world is a transformed mind. |
| 1:31.6 | A holy body, Romans 12 1 and 12 2 says, |
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