Author	Thread: BEING SOBER MINDED..ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS VS. ASSUMING.. YOU'RE ENCOURAGED TO REPLY
Admin	BEING SOBER MINDED..ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS VS. ASSUMING.. YOU'RE ENCOURAGED TO REPLY Posted : 5 Oct, 2009 02:17 PM I THINK ALMOST ALL MAKE THE MISTAKE OF MAKING ASSUMPTIONS OR PLAYING MIND READER, FROM TIME TO TIME. BUT WHEN I AM CAREFUL TO DO THIS IS SOLVES ALMOST ALL PROBLEMS - I MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE WITH OTHER PEOPLE. Titus 1:7-8 (ASV) 7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; 8 but given to hospitality, as lover of good, SOBER-MINDED , just, holy, self-controlled; A bishop has to love hosting people and love good people. He has to be sober, which is referring to more than not getting drunk. The word "sober" means "safe (sound) in mind, i.e. self-controlled (moderate as to opinion or passion)" (Strong's). One dictionary says the word "sober" means to be "void of speculative imagination." That is powerful. A bishop can't be imagining what people are thinking. Satan will use that against him. The NIV translates this as "self-controlled."�Andrew Wommacks Living Commentary SPECULATIVE IMAGINATION covers a whole lot more ground, I think than what is expressed here by Andrew Wommack. I think it all ties together with being selfcentered or selfconscious, but one of the worst forms of SPECULATIVE IMAGINATION is when we play MIND READER AND ASSUME WE KNOW WHAT ANOTHER PERSON IS THINKING - INSTEAD OF ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS - TO CLARIFY WHAT THE OTHER PERSON IT THINKING. THERE IS VERY LITTLE THAT CAUSES MORE HARM IN RELATIONSHIPS. I find when I am careful to ask good questions to clarify what the other person is thinking - it avoids a tremendous amount of problems - and lets me know how to proceed from there. That's why if a person does not answer my questions I typically will abandon communications with them rather quickly. The main reason I will seperate myself from them is its impossible to have good communications under these conditions - and of course there is also a fairly good chance they may be hiding some things. Post Reply
View Profile History	BEING SOBER MINDED..ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS VS. ASSUMING.. YOU'RE ENCOURAGED TO REPLY Posted : 8 Oct, 2009 05:39 PM Just to clarify - when I say follow that to its logical conclusion I am talking about the thinking of the guy who you pasted his comments - calling Andrew a false teacher. No one should be slandered like that. Unless a guy is preaching faith in something other than Jesus and His death and resurection I do not think he should be accused of being a false teacher - and if you do that then logically everyone is a fasle teacher. I want to go 100% carnal when I read such accusations about anyone who preaches Jesus, if you know what I mean - a swift kick right in the seat of that guy's pants. Of course the word says "The wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God." Post Reply

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