{"id":3485,"date":"2022-03-29T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T08:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2022-03-29T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T08:57:01","slug":"changing-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/03\/29\/changing-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The apostle Paul famously changed his mind. This is mentioned in his letter to the Philippians in <a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>. We see an account of just how radical his own turning-around was. He&#8217;s put behind him the whole orientation of his previous life (although he carried into his new life his drive and knowledge and no doubt many more things about his personality).<\/p>\n<p>It is scary to change one&#8217;s mind. It hurts to abandon a life&#8217;s work as if it&#8217;s worthless before embarking on something new (verse 7).<\/p>\n<p>This kind of change is not always what God needs from us.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe it is <em>sometimes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, at some point there is a decision, however clouded in memory, however muffled by circumstances or half forgotten, to choose Christ. Remember that churches are sometimes a poor reflection of the love of Christ, so to choose Christ is not necessarily to choose a church or to choose a particular way of being Christ&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>May God give us grace to know when we need to set out on a new path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apostle Paul famously changed his mind. This is mentioned in his letter to the Philippians in Sunday&#8217;s lectionary. We see an account of just how radical his own turning-around was. He&#8217;s put behind him the whole orientation of his previous life (although he carried into his new life his drive and knowledge and no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/03\/29\/changing-your-mind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Changing your mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}