"Thinking Christianly" What is this?

Much is sure being said about it in cyberspace, but exactly what does it mean? Is there just one way of 'thinking Christianly?' One might say.. it means to only think on Scripture-- Sola Scriptura--- and to let the words of Christ richly dwell in one's heart and mind, and to dwell only on the pure, the beautiful, the lovely, and the good. Or possibly it means taking Paul's injunction on "having the mind of Christ" to indicate.. an attitude of the heart. Thats been a popular take in the past. Surely, in Scripture we see a Christ that has 'a heart', a person of feeling and compassion more than we see a Christ who has unlimited knowledge and intelligence about all sorts of things and disciplines. It is quite easy to know and see Him having a heart of humility and servanthood; Jesus is seen as a be'er and do'er and not a 'thinker'. In spite of His omniscience, we don't see Him as having a Phd or spreading knowledge around.

Surely.. 'thinking Christianly ' can't mean thinking exactly like the people who coined the phrase: Chuck Colsen- et al. Yet it feels that way when one reads all the blogs; thinking Christianly is thinking in the same way as those who talk about it- " worldview issues, global and not sequential, big picture and not little picture, philosohical and intellectual ideas and not pragmatic concerns.

Who wants to get on this bandwagon and claim to have finally arrived?


So no, this is no claim to 'thinking Christianly'- tracking and tracing ideas down through history, even though transcending time and space in that pursuit is an element of the divine nature of Christ. I suspect the concern that coined the phrase, however, had more to understand the need to ensure that total truth takes dominion in the beliefs of the culture. So... unlike the modern era in which Billy Graham preached the Gospel, the new concern in these times is to enure that Biblical ideas take up dominion in the culture:


The 'cultural mandate' has scared off far too many of us- because of the fear of some messy political entanglement when actually the mandate is much larger than that. It is has broad, varied and diverse as the giftings, interest and concerns of each of the tens of thousands of us. Each in our own little, or big unique way... we can do our part to inform, to make aware, to teach, to persuade people about the reasonableness of Biblical ideas taking up dominion on this earth.