{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.8 / Who taught you to think the way you think?","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f5e647f6\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3119,"description":"If you think you're in Texas and you want to get to California, you go west. If you're actually in Hawaii, going west takes you most of the way around the world.\nThe Bible is like a map with X's drawn on it. Most of us can find the X. Our problem is we don't know where we are on the map, because we don't know our own thinking very well.\nMy dad always asks it this way: who taught you to think the way you think? My co-host Nick Surface and I trace where our filters come from and test them on the subject that makes everybody emotional: money.\nAm I being logical or emotional?\nAsk yourself: am I looking for something I agree with, or something that's true? Truth will offend you and challenge your preconceived notions.\nDo you trust money?\nJesus said you can't serve God and mammon (Matthew 6:24). The Greek word is μαμωνᾶς (mamōnâs), and as I read it, it's whatever you trust in or value. Most people worship money and use God as a tool, rather than worship God and use money as a tool.\nDoes God only want you to have spiritual abundance?\nIn John 10:10 the word for life is ζωή (zōḗ), and the word for abundantly is περισσός (perissós). It means more than what's required, more than full.\nAre you asking a question or making a point?\nThe hardest thing as an adult is being willing to be wrong. God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9).\nScriptures\nMatthew 7:16 · Matthew 6:24 · John 10:10 · 2 Corinthians 8:9 · Luke 8:3 · Acts 17:27 · Isaiah 55:8-9 · 1 Corinthians 8:1\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:53 The filter you see the world through\n3:28 NLP, CBT and Stoicism\n4:49 Adults are making it up\n6:04 Whatever your parents do becomes normal\n6:58 Bible college in England\n8:13 The Bible is a map with X's on it\n9:43 \"Who taught you to think the way you think?\"\n10:49 Logical or emotional?\n12:55 Black and white, or gray?\n15:02 If it's true, it's always been true\n16:32 The fruit of your thinking\n18:56 \"We can't afford it\"\n22:21 God and mammon\n24:17 Money makes you...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}