The Godly Thinker

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As the Holy Spirit, through Peter the apostle, is exhorting Christians to be good stewards of God’s grace, He commands Christians who minister through their words to speak “as the oracles of God” (1 Peter 4:10-11).

Extending this principle from verbal service to intellectual service, it can be said that “the one who thinks, let him think as the mind of God.”[1] Like the Christian speaker serves God by speaking God’s Word, the Christian thinker serves God by thinking God’s thoughts, which He reveals in His Word, and then bringing them to bear on all subjects.

For example, a Christian thinker raises the question “What does God think about economics?” He then examines all the Biblical passages where God speaks on economic matters to answer this question. After he learns all he can learn on the subject from Scripture, he publishes God’s thoughts on economics in whatever form he thinks will communicate these truths in the most Biblical and God-glorifying way possible. He publishes them to glorify God and build up the body of Christ in godly thought.

Therefore, if a Christian wants to serve Christ through intellectual service, he will bring Christ’s thoughts to bear on all subjects as previously described.

This fact is also a standard by which Christians can discern between true teachers (since God, and therefore Christ, is truth) and false teachers (who are teachers of Satan, since Satan is the father of all lies-John 8:44). True teachers teach God’s thoughts. False teachers teach Satan’s thoughts, as delivered through false gods and false religions (including those false gods and false religions that bear the name “Christian” but contradict true Christianity by contradicting Scripture).

[1] In the sense of thinking according to God’s mind as revealed in His Word, NOT that the Christian thinker's mind is anything like God’s mind, because it is not.