How do we change and grow? Seems like a pretty straightforward question…until you dig a little deeper. This is the first of a two-part episode that explores the various ways this question has been answered by secular philosophers as well as how the church has incorporated these ways of thinking into the approaches it uses to help people change and grow. This episode explores three paradigms -

The first is: “Information = Transformation” and it poses the question - does transformation happen as I accumulate correct knowledge?

The second is: “Do the Right Thing” which seeks to determine if transformation happens as we accumulate longer and longer strings of good deeds.

The third is: “Power to the People” which asserts that the ability to change and grow is tied to having the power in a given situation.

Episode two will look at our current cultural reality and then propose a Biblical perspective for change and growth that involves knowing, doing and power under the umbrella of attachment to God.

Join your hosts Brandon Bathauer and Linda Tokar and their special guest, Rob Jacobs as we seek to really understand how we change and grow.

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Books referenced in the episode:

The Connected Life by Todd Hall

The Solution of Choice by Dr. Marcus Warner and Jim Wilder.

Early Thinkers:

Tertullian Augustine

Justin Martyr Boethius

Philo Thomas Aquinas

Clement

Knowledge = Transformation

Descartes

Locke

Hume

Kant

Do the Right Thing

Hobbes

Einstein

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