Thank you. Some people think following Jesus is supposed to be a deeply emotional, religious experience.

Other people think we should believe only what we can intellectually rationalize. Today on Truth for Life

Weekend, we'll learn why true Christian faith involves both the heart and the mind.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the opening verses of Titus.

When Paul writes to Timothy, at one point he refers to some who are always learning,

yet never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

When the writer to the Hebrews is describing the time of the Exodus,

he describes those for whom the message was of no value to them

because they did not combine it with faith.

Thus making it clear to us that it is possible for us

to have some kind of elemental knowledge of things without

that knowledge actually being life-transforming knowledge. Now, it is the latter that Paul is

referencing here. Genuine Christian faith involves both the heart and the mind. If we fail to understand that, that God at work in us causes

us not only to feel deeply, but also to think properly, we will be tempted to make much of one

or the other element. If we make much of our minds, then we may end up with a kind of arid rationalism. If we make

too much of our hearts, then we may end up with a kind of superficial emotionalism. And it is good

for us just to think about knowledge in relationship to truth and knowledge in relationship to faith, because the last little while

in our country has seen an increased interest in things that are, if you like, emotional,

and less in things that have a rational foundation. And there is a way of looking at the things that are in the

Bible that is constantly simply looking for that which will give us an emotional buzz or a surge

or a blessing or whatever it might be. And we may go for a long period of time and discover that

we're not actually growing in any knowledge of

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