I have had a lot experiences and thoughts about open mindedness. I am fully aware of the fear people have concerning those of us who have ventured out in uncharted waters of thought and process. \u00a0Open mindedness is not something you usually equate to religious people. \u00a0But certainly Spiritual people have learned to embrace new things, thoughts, and realities. I am pretty sure I could write books on this subject, but I will give you the cliff note version.<\/p>\n
When we used to travel all over I remember one of my biggest challenges was the Leadership. \u00a0I have always never been satisfied with the status quo. \u00a0I have always sought new ways of doing things, thinking things, system updates etc. So coming into churches and leadership training I would always bring new ideas to the table. \u00a0I quickly learned that it wasn\u2019t difficult to get the people to think new things, but my number one challenge was the thought processes of the leadership and people. \u00a0Someone asked me during a radio interview about what is one of the things that are my biggest challenges in working with churches. I told them, \u2018The hardest thing to change is the MIND\u2019.<\/p>\n
And lets face it, we all have experienced change in our lives. We will go through that process of change either via the way of Love and choice, or suffering the reality of fighting the will and choice. \u00a0The most important thing in our lives is our thoughts. It is the key to life, freedom, and spirituality. It is the only channel for change of any kind.<\/p>\n
Romans 12:2\u00a0And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing\u00a0of your mind, that ye may prove what\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.<\/p>\n So here are the 8 Characteristics of Open Mindedness:<\/p>\n 1. An open mind is NOT<\/strong><\/em> merely a gullible mind.<\/p>\n 2. An open mind is NOT<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0necessarily a skeptic against the norm or against the established realm.<\/p>\n 3. An open mind is NOT<\/strong><\/em>: not open to Change: All change and new perspective come from a space of open mindedness.<\/p>\n 4. An open mind is NOT<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0merely being relative or siding with current culture.<\/p>\n 5. An open mind is NOT<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0wishy washy; and or lacks a backbone.<\/p>\n 6. An open mind is NOT<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0having a (non opinion).<\/p>\n 7. An open mind is NOT<\/strong><\/em>: not believing in (non Essential Truths, or the Concreteness of them)<\/p>\n 8. An open mind is NOT<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0a non spiritual reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have had a lot experiences and thoughts about open mindedness. I am fully aware of the fear people have concerning those of us who have ventured out in uncharted waters of thought and process. \u00a0Open mindedness is not something you usually equate to religious people. \u00a0But certainly Spiritual people have learned to embrace new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[16,7,17,11,13],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}