Romans 12:2 teaches us that our mandate as Christians is not to allow the world to squeeze us into its mould, but to be different - transformed, even metamorphosized, by renewing our minds to the will of God. To avoid the world's mould, we must first recognize what it is, and see the pitfalls ahead of us. If we do not, we might find ourselves caught up in the thinking of the culture around us without even realizing it. We must understand what the world thinks, how it thinks and how it wants us to think. Then we need to take deliberate steps to walk not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but delight in the law of the LORD, meditating on it day and night.I often run into Christians who believe there is no need to really understand how the world around us thinks. I suppose if we all believed that there wouldn't be any reason to claim to be Christian.
The shallowness of the thinking of so many Christians is astonishing. Rev. Samson is exactly right in saying we need to take deliberate steps to avoid thinking as the secular-world around us thinks. We have to spend time "renewing our minds" as God through the Apostle Paul instructed us. If we don't we won't know when our thinking is the world's and not "the mind of Christ's"
