Challenged

I love Kante. He starts off so strong and passionate when he says, "Dare to know!" As I kept reading, I felt challenged. I mean when he talked about the cattle stupidly walking along I decided I do not want to be one of the cattle. He has challenged me to cultivate my mind. It is so easy to fall for the trap to mindlessly read and do assignments then wait for the teacher to spoon feed you. This is one thing I love about Honors. I am encouraged and pushed to cultivate my mind, and we are encouraged to discuss and bounce around ideas which Kante mentions arguing helps cultivate minds (bone of contention). However, Kante has made me want to push even harder not only with schoolwork but Scripture as well! One of Satan's traps is for Christians to get the mindset to just get fed by God's Word on Sunday. Now I believe Kante is talking about a different time where the people relied only on pastors (PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG!), so he was addressing pastors when he said, "That the spiritual guardians of the people should themselves be treated as minors is an absurdity..." He's saying the pastors should preach what the church believes, but as a citizen write what he finds in Scripture. Well today we have the Bible available at our fingertips, so why do we have to wait until Sunday or mindlessly read through Scripture? I felt challenged to dig deeper into God's Word and see what He shows me while keeping all my findings theologically sound. We do not want any heresy.

P.S. I commented on Eva's.