tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post8908486094769709165..comments2024-03-25T19:00:40.046-06:00Comments on The Constructive Curmudgeon: The Old Book ManDouglas Groothuis, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-22485230592316610302008-07-12T17:45:00.000-06:002008-07-12T17:45:00.000-06:00best thing I ever heard on this was from a psych p...best thing I ever heard on this was from a psych prof and pastor, who pointed out that meditating is like worry: you keep coming back to the same thing over and over, letting it fill your thoughts whenever you don't have something immediate to occupy them, until you just have to do or say something about it.pgeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00778075334003141988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-49425614990660495872008-07-12T14:48:00.000-06:002008-07-12T14:48:00.000-06:00Similarly, I find that an increasing amount of con...Similarly, I find that an increasing amount of contemporary evangelicals can quote certain lines of Scripture but miss the point because they did not regard the context of the passage. This, I believe is another outworking of not allowing Scripture to saturate our lives but just find and take those things which we think back-up our already held affirmationsMichael Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17535833766942754590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-17265999923029468252008-07-12T14:17:00.000-06:002008-07-12T14:17:00.000-06:00R:Very good, and sad, point.Selah.R:<BR/><BR/>Very good, and sad, point.<BR/><BR/>Selah.Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-18884141910832603212008-07-12T13:52:00.000-06:002008-07-12T13:52:00.000-06:00Yeah, I agree. Many things dwell richly in many of...Yeah, I agree. Many things dwell richly in many of us, except the Bible.<BR/><BR/>I've been struck recently about how many Christians can quote extensive lines from Monty Python, recall exact episodes of Friends, sing along to multitudes of songs, navigate through areas of large cities from memory, give an account of the theology of John Piper, Brian McLaren, Benny Hinn, Oprah etc, etc - yet are unable to repeat more than a couple of verses of Scripture.<BR/><BR/>Our ability to memorize is not the problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com