CHALLENGING OUR BIASES
The title, Challenging Our Biases, is the title of today's H2H Eletter. This movement is the House to House or The Organic Church Movement.
I will share two statements that capsulized the entire Eletter for me, and then I will share a piece that the Spirit of God formed through me two years ago from the Prophetic Poetry Section of my book "Without Apology: On Call For God."
1) "Confirmation biases means we favour things that agree with what we already believe. So conservatives listen to conservative talk shows and news sources, while liberals listen to liberal talk shows and news sources. Because the sources agree with what they already think, they do not get any new data or any new ideas to consider; instead, they have their bias confirmed." 2) "Let what you think you know be challenged - what is right will survive, what is less than right just might be exposed."
WHEN DOUBT COMES
When doubt comes...and surely it will,
Will you command your thoughts to be still,
Or will you investigate the nagging gloom
Which opens the door to an unknown room?
Is the knowledge you have tried and true,
Or will it falter in the face of something new?
If what you believe is the real thing,
Then put it on exhibit in center ring.
If we don't ask questions, how can we know
That what we believe is truly so?
Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding too
Were afforded by God to me and you.
He said to ask and it shall be given,
But it comes to those who are passionately driven.
Just accepting status quo is not always safe
Because it keeps us stuck forever on first base.
Jesus questioned the protocol of His time
And left us a legacy that is simply divine.
We all need to allow God to expose our biases and our "holy cows" so that He can give us fresh and clearer revelations/mysteries of our King and his vast Kingdom. After all, there are "higher heights and deeper depths" in the things of God. He wants to take us "from glory to glory."
