place of nathan.

Erwin McManus recently stated at a national convention:

Studying the Bible doesn’t change people. Just look at seminaries.

Is that true? Is knowledge the end of our Christian walk, or is ultimate obedience the end? Why do we seem to place such an emphasis on formal education, when the Bible is full of stories of obedience, not formal education. When Jesus hand-chose 12 people to mentor as his disciples, why did he not choose the most educated people he could find?

For instance, why didn’t he choose someone like Paul, who was very educated and really knew what he was talking about. Why didn’t he mentor someone like Paul instead of the ‘nobodies?’ Is it possible that the educated think they’re right all the time and have a really hard time following a leader in a new direction (which is why it took a major event to knock Saul to follow Christ), whereas an uneducated person doesn’t have pre-conceived ideas and are ’stuck’ in religion. Is this the religion v. faith argument?
If a man has a Ph.D. in theology, is he automatically a better Christian than the business man who truly lives a life for Christ?
this just jumped at me today…help me think through this. what are your thoughts?

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So I’m currently reading You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader by Mark Sanborn, and he says something interesting I wanted to run by you:

Reading outside your area of expertise, or outside your comfort zone, can stimulate your thinking, whether that means picking up an interesting new book or thumbing through a new issue of a magazine.

What are your experiences doing this? Does this tend to stimulate your brain, or is it rather boring to you? I know I’m not exactly excited about reading the new issue of Cosmo or whatever… But maybe there are things I can apply here in my job that have nothing to do with what my job actually is…

hmmm…

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