The band Dishwalla released a song entitled “Counting Blue Cars”, it’s main chorus is “Tell Me All Your Thoughts on God“. This song is one of the most heavily played song on the radio over the past 28 years.
When this released in 1995 I immediately was struck about the phrase, first because it seems like a call to evangelize. But later because a Christian’s thoughts about God determines so much. They define us in most every way.
Are our thoughts on God, small? Is God distant and impersonal?, is he strict and exacting? Is he carefree like a hippy?
Are they shallow self-centered thoughts, just there to get us rich and “blessed”? Are they even accurate to reality? Do they track closely with Jesus Christ? … All this matters greatly.
Christian’s collective thoughts about God determines their lives, and then that determines the church…and then that determines largely the society that they affect …or neglect.
But before those thoughts can exist …the particular gospel that individuals and groups of Christians have embraced and teach, form those thoughts. Our thoughts on God reflect the foundation of our Christian lives.
We should always reconsider and be willing to re-look at the foundations of our Christian lives, which determines most everything about us. And we can always be corrected and updated by the Lord.
It is good that we reconsider and focus on our gospel dear Christian, if it does not explain why we all exist, if it does not explain Gods purpose. If it does not walk us through ALL of the Bible with a clear light of understanding. Interpreting it as we go in the light of Jesus Christ. If it does not predict the future. If it does not create the ecclesia/ church that we read about in the New Testament. If it has nothing for the majority of Christians beyond a padded church pew bench and an offering plate.
THEN there is MUCH improvement yet to be had. And that gospel has much room to be corrected and its centuries-long traditional blanks filled in. Filled in to be more accurate to that gospel of King Jesus, aka the Gospel of the kingdom. The one preached by John the Baptist, by Jesus Christ himself, and by the apostles.
One of my current goals and the season that I believe the Lord has me in, is to compile that gospel into a series of teaching notes and videos, as best as I am able. I am about 15% (April 2023) through this process but it is an undertaking that is massive. At least 70 hours of teaching are required for this, it will become “all my thoughts on God.” What matters supremely, above and before all things is all Jesus’ thoughts on God. IF we can adopt all his thoughts on God then, we’ve accomplished something and all of humantiy will be better off for it, and will be ministered to.
But, it may cause us trouble, it may cause us great turmoil, it may even cost us our lives, but that is ok.
It is one thing to have many and varied and disconnected thoughts about God, random facts and truths. But its another thing to have them complied into one gospel that Jesus Christ himself interprets for us. A gospel which produces churches and is itself the discipleship “program” for new Christians. That gospel which also produced the early church, must be recovered for today’s generations. I beleive this is one of my assignments from the Lord. To “interpret” this gospel to my world, to my neck of the woods, to my friends and family and whomever will listen. This gospel begins in eternity past with the glory of God (see John 17 and Ephesians 1), and ends in the future as taught in the apostle John’s book of Revelations.
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