What were you thinking?

Really, "What were you thinking?"I have been tempted to say that several times in the last week. I am beginning to win the opportunity to speak into people's lives, and some of what lies beneath is just what it looked like from a distance, silly sheep stuff. 

Much of the pain in people's lives could be avoided if we knew how to think Biblically. If we added to love for God and neighbor  a healthy helping of God given knowledge, and with that framework in place, we practiced the energy intense discipline of wisdom.

The flip side of that was a conversation this week where I asked a young man what he was thinking. Specifically I asked him when he thought the Gospel had finally made sense to him, he pointed at the passage we were studying in Romans 5 to the word "righteousness" and said "Right about there."  "And what are you thinking we need to do next?" I asked him. "Get baptized." He replied pointing to the note from Matthew 28 scrawled in our notes.

I'm glad I asked.