I awoke this morning to the sound of “Boing! Boing! Boing!” as a stuffed Tigger bounced his way from my feet up to my face. My daughter’s experiences, from flying on an airplane to visit relatives, the books we read together, and the television we watch, influence her play, and I suppose also her behavior. The more exposure she has to life, the more creative she becomes.
We choose to read a variety of books to Sophia, including Bible stories, her two favorites being Queen Esther and Jonah. As I laid there, bounced upon by Tigger, I thought of the biblical illiteracy I see in our culture, which we work to avoid in our daughter. While the character and attitude changes in SoulShift do define marks of maturity in a Christian, I wondered in another shift, a brain shift, could also be necessary, one of knowing the core tenets and stories of the Faith, and putting them into good and profitable use, a shift from ignorance to wisdom.
Just as the consumer to steward soulshift moves in three stages (spender to saver, saver to giver, sharing to blessing (generosity)), I imagine this shift moving in stages: ignorance to knowledge, then knowledge to wisdom. Just as it is insufficient to know without doing (James 1:22), it seems to me that it is also insufficient to do without knowing (Ezra 7:10). What do you think SoulShifters?
References:
- DeNeff, S. and Drury, D. (2011). SoulShift: The Measure of a Life Transformed. Indianapolis: Wesleyan Publishing House.
- photo credit: woodleywonderworks via photopincc
Other SoulShift posts:
A Lectio by Rick Steele along the lines of this subject. http://blog.spu.edu/lectio/introduction-a-good-conversation. “Education aimed at transformation requires conversation.”