The Kingdom and Mind Change

As summer comes to an end, we have concluded our run of Mind Change Encore Moments and are turning to some new thoughts. My good friend, Steve Brown, and I are looking forward to the release of our new book in a few weeks. Titled The Kingdom of God—Volume One: The Future Breaks In, it is the product of study and teaching the two of us have done together the last two years.

When Jesus came preaching the good news of the Kingdom (which, by the way, was his main message) the word “repent” was usually right there at the beginning. The Greek word for “repentance,” of course, most literally means “change your mind.” In the last twenty years I have talked a good deal about the subject of “mind change,” and used that term to help me and others shift our thinking. But the fact is that there is no mind change like that which Jesus called for when he called us to the Kingdom.

The Kingdom of God is so different from all other kingdoms, and living as a citizen of this kingdom is so different from living as a citizen of any other kingdom that the only way you can enter it is by a radical openness to the most drastic mind change of all. In our book, Steve and I have tried to go deeper in understanding this drastic shift in thinking—one that is greater than many of us have thought it to be. It is our prayer that those who have been disciples of Jesus for a long time will even still be open to seeing  more about how far he calls to us go in changing our thinking.

Over the next few weeks you will get our Monday Mind Change Moment and a bonus Thursday Thought. We have never done this and will only do it for the next three or four weeks. When conviction is at high levels, you just have to do some things differently.

  In this email is some information about how our Mind Change Moment followers can get the book at a discount. I hope you will join us on what continues to be a great adventure. But buckle your seat belt and tune in Thursday.

Scripture

Matthew 16:21-23
²¹ From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
²² Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!"
²³ Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."