Logarithms

Hey guys,

today was really interesting. I really like it when the whole day just fits together so well. lol.

This post is about what it means to be taken captive by a philosophy. In our BaD guys Bible study (which I may not have explained is the 'Becoming a Disciple' study I am doing with some guys that go to OCBC sometimes) we were looking at the first principles, what that concept means. Basically, building blocks to build upon in our faith, elementary concepts or things to apply. Best analogy is math: without basic addition and subtraction you can't do algebra, so we have to figure it out first. (Vi Hart's video that breaks down logarithms: (http://youtu.be/N-7tcTIrers) mind blowingly simple.)

Anyways, the point, we looked at Col 2:6-8 and verse 8 contained the idea of being taken "captive by philosophy". Which, I didn't really get, and still don't fully get, but I do fully understand this one: being taken captive by an idea.

Today's sermon was on Romans 6. Literally the whole chapter was read out loud. xP So good. What really hit me was that we need to see ourselves not as who we were, but who we are in Christ now. No longer to 'hate the sin and not the sinner' in such a way that you are still a sinner, but to love regardless of what has been done since we are new in Christ.

Over the last few months I've really been held captive by just thinking of myself as a sinner. Like, each and everything thought, action, or whatever, that could point to me being a sinner to the core and that being my identity would make me think and act like it was fully true. But in Him we are new, set free, and it's mind blowing to have such a change in attitude and thought.

May His truth renew our minds and free us to the reality of the future He has for us and the fullness of the plans He has prepared.

D.Fa

PS. There was also stuff from Sunday school that tied into BaD guys really well. xP