My friend Sam Williamson, author of Hearing God in Conversation: How to Recognize His Voice Everywhere and creator of the blog Beliefs of the Heart, just published a post titled “Should Christians Fear Thinking?” Sam writes, “God wants whole people, neither heart-deprived Tin Men nor lobotomized tomatoes.”
He is smack on the money, and he has touched on one of my soapbox issues. In 2014 I wrote my own post on the subject: “Why Living from Your Heart Requires Using Your Head.“
If you’ve ever puzzled over how the heck you’re supposed to turn off your thinker in order to “live from the heart, not the head,” or heard that “God will insult the mind to free the heart” (I forget who it was who thought that one up), take a few minutes to read both Sam’s post and mine.