TWO RADICALLY DIFFERENT MINDSETS

Christ lives in every true believer, but not all believers live with the same mindset or perspective. There are really only two mindsets and they are radically different mindsets.

You either live with the Adamic religious mindset or you live with the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). Your mindset is the lens through which you see and interpret everything in your life. If you do not embrace the mindset of the New Testament (the "mind of Christ") you will never become a mature Christian.

The Adamic religious mindset is focused on self, it is inevitably occupied with imperfection and it thus relentlessly attempts different processes to change the status quo of imperfection. The true Christian (New Testament) mindset ("mind of Christ") is focused on Christ, occupied with the perfection of his Person and his redemptive work and it requires only one element in order to be, as it were, activated in and then through us. Revelation!

We need a personal, inner revelation of Christ more than anything else we could ever think of. Most of Paul's documented prayers for believers in the New Testament were focused on the need for this revelation. Why? Because obviously Paul lived with this second mindset. It was the lens through which he saw everything and unless you understand this you are never going to grasp his letters or those of the other apostles for that matter.

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." Romans 12:2