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With All Your Heart

Review Questions

Introduction

  1.  How do we often use the term “heart”?
    • What are some of the ways the Bible uses the term “heart”?
  2. Why is the heart central to the Christian faith?
    • How does modern usage represent a diabolical challenge to the Christian faith?
    • What phrase may represent the worst advice of worldly wisdom?
  3. How do we understand the unity of the heart?
  4. How is the heart complex?
    • What are the “parts” of the human heart?
  5. How does God affect and redeem the heart?

Chapter 1

  1.  Why is it important to recognize that the heart thinks?
  2. What are the functions of the thinking heart?
    • How does it reason?
      • What results from a lack of reasoning?
    • What is the Biblical term for “reflecting”?
      • What does it mean?
    • What is the importance of remembering?
    • What does a lack of understanding indicate?
  3. What are “men without chests”?
    • How does the mind respond to the desires/love?
  4. Why people believe the head and heart are divided?
    • Which (head or heart) does popular Christianity/culture often believe to be the most important?
    • Which (head or heart) does reformed Christianity often believe to be the most important?
    • How ought we view the division?  What is the biblical view?

Chapter 2

  1.  The Sin of the Mind
    • Where do we find heart sins in Scripture?
    • Why is self-delusion so destructive?
      • How do we confront self-delusion?
  2. Falling Short
    • How does our mind “fall short”?
    • What is included in the sins of omission?
    • What biblical example does the author use for the sins of omission?
  3. Impassioned Reason
    • How does the Bible describe the unrepentant heart?
      • What is its fatal flaw, intellectual or moral?
      • What primal sin does this heart character reveal?
    • How does the mind follow our passions?
    • Do we have a duty to foster Lewis’ “chest”? Why or why not?
    • Is sanctification a matter of thinking right and doing right?
      • What does your answer require of you?

Chapter 3

  1. The Prophetic Ministry of Christ
    • Why did Jesus say it was better for the disciples for Him to ascend to heaven?
    • Who is the “comforter”?
    • What is His role in the prophetic ministry of Christ
    • What means does the Spirit use in the prophetic ministry of Christ?
      • How are circumstances used by the Spirit?
    • What is the goal of the prophetic ministry of Christ?
  2. Transforming your mind
    • How do logic and faith relate to each other?
    • What does Romans 12:1-2 teach?
      • about the world?
      • about the word?
    • What do we mean by semper reformanda?
    • What should we mean by semper reformanda?
    • What should be our default approach to the world?
    • How does the Bible describe the way the mind sets our desires?
    • How does knowledge grow?
      • What is the cycle of sanctification?
    • What is the ultimate goal of renewing our mind?
    • What book of the Bible speaks most about assurance?
  • How will the world attack the prophet of your mind?
  • How ought we respond?

Chapter 4

What does Troxel believe the one ring symbolizes?

  1. What the Heart Desires
    • How did the Puritans describe “desires”?
      • How do desires appear in Scripture?
    • What is the true ultimate desire of every heart?
      • How does this explain idolatry?
      • How important are holy affections?
      • What means do Baxter and Swinnock suggest God uses to direct our affections toward Him?
  2. What the Heart Loves
    • How potent is raw desire?
    • What is the supreme affection?
    • What is the solution to corrupt desires?
      • What lesson does the football game teach?
      • Why are our desires often weak?
      • What is the consequence of weak desires?
      • Why did the Puritans use the term “affections”?
    • How does Troxel define idolatry?
      • Can we define it better?
  3. What the Heart Feels
    • How does the Bible describe intense feelings?
    • How does this feature in our lives?
  4. The Desires of the Heart and Our Mind and Will
    • How does C.S.Lewis describe the relationship between the mind, desire, and will?

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