HOW HEALTHY DO YOU WANT TO BE? - The Vineyard ChurchHOW HEALTHY DO YOU WANT TO BE? Romans 6:11–13 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus

H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ?

Heal thy Minds

Who are the smartest people who’ve ever lived?


H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Mark 12:29–30

29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

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Three Parts of a Healthy Life

DoingKnowing

Being


ROMANS 12:1-2 PAGE 7 8 9

If You Want to be Healthy, Engage Your Mind

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A. Our minds are right at the center of healthy spirituality

H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Job 38:33

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?

H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Proverbs 2:2, 4

2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, apply your heart to understanding…

4 and look for it [wisdom] as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure…

H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Colossians 1:9

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives…

H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Ephesians 4:23

…to be made new in the attitude of your minds…

H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Acts 26.24

Festus to the apostle Paul

“Your great learning is driving you mad.”


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“…it may be that we have confused the need for a childlike faith with childish thinking.” J.P. Moreland


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“Christ wants a child’s heart, but a grown-up’s head.”C.S. Lewis


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A. Our minds are right at the center of healthy spirituality B. Learn to doubt your doubts

The Pathway To Transformation is Through Your Body

FOOD IS A BLESSING FROM GOD

“For good or evil, the body lies right at the center of the spiritual life.” Dallas Willard


A. Our body is where we live our life, and how we interact with the world B. How does offering our bodies help to transform our minds?

FOOD IS A BLESSING FROM GOD


• To play well you must replace bad tennis habits with good tennis habits

• Your bad habits live in your body

• You must present your body to a tennis instructor on a tennis court

• You must engage specific body parts in regular activities under the watchful eye of your instructor

• As good tennis habits slowly replace bad tennis habits, you will begin to play better

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H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Romans 6:11–13

11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.


A. Our body is where we live our life, and how we interact with the world B. How does offering our bodies help to transform our minds? C. This is the only reasonable or logical response to the grace of God

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H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Romans 11:33–36

33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! 34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Some Tips From a Coach

A. Nurture an intellectual love of God

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• Knowledge of the Holy, by A.W. Tozer • The Existence and Attributes of God, by Stephen Charnock • Search the Scriptures, by by Alan M. Stibbs • The Reason for God, by Timothy Keller • The Art of Thinking, by Ernest Dimnet


“Don’t neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in his own image. God invites and expects us to explore his double revelation, in nature and scripture, with the minds he has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply his marvelous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.”

John Stott


“To imagine none can teach you but those who are themselves saved from sin, is a very great and dangerous mistake. Give not place to it for a moment.”

John Wesley


A. Nurture an intellectual love of God B. Embrace honesty C. Embrace wisdom

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H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Proverbs 2:1–5

1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— 3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.


A. Nurture an intellectual love of God B. Embrace honesty C. Embrace wisdom D. Embrace humility E. Be careful of GIGO

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H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Proverbs 23:7

For as he thinks within himself, so he is.

H O WH E A L T H Y D O Y O U W A N T T O B E ? Psalm 119:11

I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.


A. Nurture an intellectual love of God B. Embrace honesty C. Embrace wisdom D. Embrace humility E. Be careful of GIGO

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