Don’t Check Your Brain At The Door!

Acts 17:11

And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth.

Here’s some brain food for you (pun intended):

Your 3-pound brain is a marvelous instrument. It has a 100 billion neurons intricately linked to each other. It uses your retina cells to perform up to 10 billion calculations per second in determining the nature of the image transmitted to the eye by light photons.

No supercomputer on earth is capable of matching these virtually instantaneous calculations. Do you really believe such a marvelous supercomputer was an accident of unguided chance?

According to Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould, for evolution to go from one cell to a full human would require 60 trillion contingent events -- 36 necessary events per day, each day for 4.55 billion years, in the right place at the right time in the right sequence.

Why do you need to know this? Because contrary to what people may think, our faith is based on facts, history, and science (when it is not biased).

So don’t check your brain at the door when you go to church! As a Believer, it is your duty to examine what is being taught to you. Take everything you hear from a teacher or preacher and check it against the Bible. If it doesn’t make sense, do some digging. Ask yourself, “Does what I just heard line up with the rest of the Bible?” If not, you may not be in a good church, or listening to the right preacher.

Please notice that your feelings don’t count here. If the pastor says something Scriptural that you don’t like, that is between you and God. The preacher isn’t teaching false doctrine, your feels just got in the way of the Holy Spirit. Big difference!

Today’s Readings:  Job 13,14; Acts 17,18

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